Монументальная экранизация Дени Де Ла Пательером популярнейшего романа Виктора Гюго с участием множества звезд, и, прежде всего, с блистательным исполнением Жаном Габеном ("Набережная туманов") роли Жана Вальжана, сделали этот фильм бестселлером для уже нескольких поколений зрителей. Роль Вальжана, бывшего каторжника, вора и убийцы, но глубоко порядочного и мужественного человека, считали за честь играть лучшие актеры разных поколений - Фредерик Марч (1935), Джино Черви (1948), Лино Вентура (1985), Жан-Поль Бельмондо (1995), Жерар Депардье (2000)... Но наиболее любим зрителями образ, созданный в 1957 году именно Жаном Габеном, актером № 1 французского кинематографа 20 века.
Жан Вальжан отбыл на каторге 20 лет за кражу корки хлеба, а затем, после встречи с обезоруживающей добротой священника, у которого он крадет подсвечники, посвящает себя и всю свою жизнь творению добра. Его антагониста и главного врага, безжалостного инспектора Жавера, великолепно сыграл Бернар Блие. Мерзкого негодяя Тенардье отлично сыграл Бурвиль, ну а несчастную Козетту - Даниэль Делорм.
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Год выпуска: | 1957 |
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Режиссер: | Жан-Поль Ле Шануа |
В ролях: | Беатрис Альтариба и др., Бернар Блие, Бурвиль, Жан Габен |
Продолжительность: | 179 мин. |
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Язык: | русский, французский |
Количество дисков: | 1 |
Цена: | 176 руб |
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A spokesman for the MP said: "Mike Hancock notes that Portsmouth City Council's Standards sub-committee has decided that the standards complaint against him as a councillor should go on to a hearings sub-committee.
Twitter, which is expected to go public some time before Thanksgiving, has yet to determine pricing, but investors say it might come under pressure from its financial backers to go high. Analysts expect the company, which posted a $69 million loss last year, to seek a valuation of at least $10 billion.
Barnes & Noble, operator of the largest chain of bookstores in the United States, has been hit hard by Amazon, which has won market share by selling physical books more cheaply online. Amazon, the world's largest Internet retailer, inflicted more damage when its Kindle e-reader became a hit and e-book sales took off about five years ago.
One-time factors, including a favorable 2012 tax resolution,made it hard to compare results for the Montreal-based parent ofBell Canada, one of three big players in a domestic marketfacing a shake-up if U.S. giant Verizon Communications Inc comes in.
The Pentagon had already extended certain privileges to same-sex couples after a ban on openly gay troops - known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell - was repealed in September 2011. But most benefits had been off-limits until the Supreme Court ruling.
The cases before the judge represent the bulk of the 17lawsuits state attorneys general have filed against S&P. Mostwere filed on the same February day that the Justice Departmentsued the rating agency for $5 billion.
"easyJet has never denied boarding due to comments on social media," a company spokesperson said in a statement. "On the rare occasion that we consider denying boarding it is on the basis of disruptive behaviour." That doesn't deny the incident occurred, however.
The exhibition starts with the classical ideal of the male nude before moving on to the heroic nude and athletes. Then it examines the cruder vision of the male form found in the tortured self-portraits of Ego Schiele. Man in nature is offers joyful respite before the pain of tableaux by Francis Bacon and 19th century artist Henri Greber.
Alvarez's eye continues to swell as Mayweather continues to dominate... is this fight already getting away from the young Mexican as we close in on the halfway point? Alvarez does manage to land midway through the session but it's not enough at the moment.
âI didnât want the name to be called âSharknado,ââ she said, laughing. âI canât do a movie like âSharknadoâ itâs going to be so bad, but it actually ended up working out for us.â
The CRL laboratories are equipped with the latest instrumentation to measure drug and metabolite concentrations in biological matrices, while providing full support for capillary micro-sampling and dried-blood spot analysis.
And Labour rejected Mr Cameron's suggestion that a £5,000 cap would mean a significant increase in taxpayer funding for political parties, insisting that any shortfall could be met by encouraging more small donations and by spending less on political campaigns.
I tried hard not to cry when my grandmother explained that she was simply too embarrassed to ask my father or his brother for a bit of extra money so that she could go shopping. She also wasn't quite sure what to buy a 6-year-old, and didn't want to bother me or my cousins for advice. Ultimately, she decided not going to the party was her only option.
President Obama phoned Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to offer support Sunday morning, and the NYPD took precautionary measures, deploying counter-terrorism response vehicles and heavily-armed Hercules teams.
The highest single fee charged for any course starting in autumn 2013 is believed to be £41,000 for Oxford’s one-year Master of Business Administration (MBA) course. Fees will rise further to £45,800 in 2014/15.
A new survey suggests the American public is divided on the question. Fully, 44 percent of Americans believe capitalism and Christianity are at odds with each other, and 41 percent believe the two ideologies are consistent with each other, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution.
The Clippers traded Eric Bledsoe, their outstanding reserve point guard, so who backs up Chris Paul? The Clippers this week answered the question by acquiring former UCLA star Darren Collison. Itâs another in a series of wise moves the Clippers have made in recent years.
The buyout of ENRC is widely expected to succeed after rivaland top shareholder Kazakhmys backed the offer, despitewhat it said was a lower than desired price. ENRC's independentboard members have told minority investors to seriously considerthe offer, due to a lack of alternative options.
Among the 1988-1996 cohort, 65.2 percent reported having sex weekly or more often in the past year, compared to 59.3 percent of college students from the current "hookup era." Also, 31.9 percent of the earlier cohort reported having more than one sexual partner in the past year, compared with 31.6 percent of contemporary college students. Also, 51.7 percent of the earlier group reported having more than two sexual partners after turning 18, compared to 50.5 percent of the 2002-2010 cohort.
As Wright alluded to, the contracts of Johan Santana ($25 million), Jason Bay ($18 million) and Frank Francisco ($6 million) are among those coming off the books from the Metsâ $94 million 2013 payroll. Wright added that he gladly will serve as a recruiter/pitch man for the organization this winter, if asked.
Following two quarters of stronger growth â as well as potential windfalls from Lloyds share sales and the Royal Mail float â the OBR should significantly lower its borrowing forecasts in November.
As tycoon Eike Batista's vast business empire crumbles, toplaw firms with long experience in Latin American restructuringare trying to organise bondholders and rescue some value forthem if, as many fear, OGX should default.
SIR – Boris Johnson should be careful of allusive comparisons, especially maritime examples (“Boris hails UK economy’s 'Costa Concordia moment’”, report, September 19). In 1987, following the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise and the loss of nearly 200 lives, Nicholas Ridley, the environment secretary, caused uproar by remarking that he would not be pursuing a particular policy “with the bow doors open”.
His predecessor, Sir Dawda Jawara, had long experience of being overthrown: the first time this happened, Sir Dawda was toppled while attending the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in London in 1981. When the military coup of 1994 took place, Lt Jammeh, as he then was, managed to be his successor by the simple expedient of being the first army officer to reach the presidential palace in Banjul.
ZIMBABWEAN WOMAN: We are expecting a better country. So far we have been empowered, we have been given a project to do. We are really excited, because we can't just, like, live forever sitting down. But now we are doing many projects, what I think is excellent.
"I hope the inspector general will ⦠identify solutions to better protect nursing home residents," Grassley, a former Aging Committee chairman, said in a statement. "The solutions might be a combination of state, federal and industry initiatives. In the meantime, the industry should do everything possible to protect the residents who have entrusted the nursing homes with their savings."
The market shrugged off a report from the Energy Department showing bigger than expected increases in U.S. oil and gasoline supplies. It also ignored, at least for a day, the partial shutdown of the federal government.
The ECB gathers data on lenders' branch networks across theEU, and the data Reuters reviewed included the 27 EU memberstates at the end of 2012. Croatia has since become the 28thmember. ECB data can differ from statistics from nationalbanking groups, depending on criteria for inclusion.
Air Products, whose rivals include Praxair Inc, France's Air Liquide SA and Germany's Linde AG, supplies hydrogen and helium, and operates in marketssuch as semiconductor materials and natural gas liquefaction.
"This was not a bank robbery," State Police Colonel Mike Edmonson told reporters in a video posted on the website of the Monroe, Louisiana News Star newspaper. "He actually had a book for negotiations... and knew exactly how the negotiations would take place, the questions he would be asked."
Lawmakers from Turkey’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party, which has repeatedly criticized Ankara’s Syria policy, questioned why the government immediately sought to internationalize the incident with its NATO partners.
Cox President Pat Esser has discussed a deal with LibertyMedia Corp, which owns 27 percent of Charter, Bloombergcited one of the unidentified sources as saying. Neither partyhas decided on a potential deal structure, it added.
In 2012/2013 some 3,057 schemes obtained planning permission, totalling 165,903 potential homes. There were 6,500 schemes with planning permissions yet to be completed as of the end of March 2013, consisting of 381,390 unbuilt homes. Building work had yet to start on 61% of the uncompleted schemes.
Shira Scheindlin, the federal judge who ruled Monday that the NYPDâs stop-and-frisk practice is unconstitutional, is preparing to try a related case brought by New York City Housing Authority residents and their visitors.
Ian Weston, executive director of the American Trauma Society, a group that represents trauma centers and emergency experts, said when people sustain a life-threatening injury, there is "what we call the golden hour - that first hour post-injury is really the life or death hour."
Prof Shiller is known for his works on financial bubbles, as outlined in his book Irrational Exuberance. He said there was "a kind of social epidemic" which meant bubbles were likely to recur.
Builder "What you're telling us now we've made countless millions filling in and building over that 60 000 yr old marsh the £50 quid we set aside was only enough for a kiddy's plastic playpit but no sand...? That's okay we're building a new estate on that 100 000 yr old forest but this time we're setting aside £75 quid! That should even cover a packet of seeds..."
With CEOs of many U.S. companies earning hundreds of timesmore than their workers, unions and labor advocates arechampioning the SEC's CEO pay-ratio rule. They say disclosureswould help investors identify top-heavy compensation models.
The Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles filled some big needs with deadline trades last week, but both need to do more â and they know it â if theyâre to advance deep into October. The Rangersâ acquisition of Matt Garza, the best available starting pitcher on the market, paid immediate dividends when he shut down the anemic Yankees on one unearned run over 7.1 innings on Wednesday.
With activist shareholders pressing tech companies withlarge pools of offshore cash to spread the wealth around, andrates expected to climb in the weeks and months ahead, thesuccess of the Oracle deal means other issuers are likely tofollow suit.
âWhen youâre trying to type in information, your computer begins buffering, and you then have to wait for 30 seconds or even a minute before you can use it again,â the supervisor explained. âThatâs okay if itâs my computer at home, but not okay for a system this important.â
Researchers pinpointed various excavation sites throughout the world where signs of prehistoric recycling were revealed. Qesem Cave, an archaeological site as old as 420,000 years near Tel Aviv in Israel, yielded evidence of flint chips being remade into tiny blades to cut up meat. Other sites in Spain, North Africa and Italy produced similar examples of prehistoric repurposing.
âPeople see him one way, but Brandon is a good-hearted genuine guy that really cares about his teammates and coaches,â Hynoski says. âThe way he took me under his wing, he was like a mentor to me my rookie year and Iâll never forget that. Just to have a guy like that back in the locker room, that really does good things for our team.â
Lisa Markwell is the editor of The Independent on Sunday. She was previously executive editor of The Independent, i and The Independent on Sunday and has edited the features pages, and both the Saturday and Sunday supplements. She writes comment pieces for the papers and restaurant reviews for the New Review. Lisa has worked across a variety of newspapers and magazines and can now tick off every publication cycle from daily to quarterly. She is an enthusiastic foodie, mother of two teenagers and drives an electric car. She is writing a book about adoption.
The operation developed three strands: one looking at Savile, a second at allegations against "Savile and others", and a third on complaints arising against people unconnected to Savile. Harris fell into the third category.
So, with five minutes to go until the start of today's race, let me give you a run down on the top 10: Webber starts from pole ahead of Vettel, Hamilton, Grosjean, Massa, Rosberg, Hulkenberg, Alonso, Raikkonen and Button.
Reptile expert Bry Loyst, curator of the Indian River Reptile Zoo in Ontario, said the New Brunswick government has asked him for help in removing animals from the pet store and taking them to accredited zoos elsewhere in the country.
In Egypt, Cairo's benchmark index rose 0.7 percentto 5,704 points, its highest level since Feb. 14. It has beentesting major chart resistance at 5,682 points, the August peak;a rise early next week would confirm the break, pointing up tothis year's high of 5,884.
It was the formation of the newfangled financial product called swaps. This is a $62 Trillion trading platform where tens of trillions of dollars are done in the dark, and we only find out later… oops, bad call. You have to separate Banks from Wall St… they should not have access to our deposits to play tidily winks … paper flipping is not capitalism.
"We saw what happened in June, we expected to see that pace continue and while the market's still trending at a double-digit growth rate, perhaps everyone got a little bit over-exuberant after June's strong performance," said Alec Gutierrez, senior analyst with Kelley Blue Book.
A growing number of security firms - such as UK-based Protection Group International (PGI) - now also offer cyber services. PGI started out providing armed guards to protect merchant ships against pirates but has now hired former staff from Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency.
Moreover, the tech and telecoms giant is also in finalstages of talks to buy a majority stake in U.S. wireless devicedistributor Brightstar Corp in a deal estimated to be worthslightly more than 100 billion yen, according to a Nikkeireport.
The NFLPA board said in the memo that "several additional issues" need to be resolved, including the "issue of discipline" before an agreement with the NFL on HGH testing is reached and a proposal is brought to the players for a vote.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Putin had availed himself of press freedoms that are suppressed in Russia and highlighted what he called the democratic values that help give the United States a unique role in the world.
Many economists expect the U.S. central bank to begin reducing its massive bond-buying stimulus program as soon as next month. The Fed currently buys $85 billion a month in bonds to push borrowing costs lower and help boost economic recovery.
On this week's edition of the Daily News Fifth Yankees Podcast, Mark Feinsand sits down with Robinson Cano to discuss next week's All-Star Game, his participation - and hopeful redemption - in the Home Run Derby, as well as what the Yankees have to do in the second half to reach October. ... plus much more!
The study's authors note that there are implications for understanding hypersexuality as high desire, rather than a disorder. Many relationships have suffered as a result of so-called sex addictions, so understanding how responses to sexual stimuli can be managed is important.
"It is crucial that the church fully and openly co-operates with the ongoing police investigation and passes on any and all relevant information it may have relating to any allegations of abuse at these schools."
The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 workingdays to 35 working days, to consider either a company's proposedremedies or an EU member state's request to handle the case.
Human rights organisations say at least 3,000 children go missing in Pakistan each year. Some are kidnapped, others run away. They are practically all boys - family customs mean girls' movements are more restricted and they go missing much less often.
Roku likes to judge its own success by how often people use itsboxes, rather than how many people own them, and last year thiscame to over a billion hours, with the average player being usedfor 13 hours per week. The average for all hours spent in front ofthe TV comes to around 35 hours, according to Lloyd Klarke,Director of Product Management for Roku, who was pretty pleasedwith the proportion of viewing time average users were spending ontheir Roku boxes.
“A necessary component of this Court’s decision finding Apple liable for horizontal price-fixing is that the publishers themselves were engaged in a horizontal price-fixing conspiracy…[There] is reason to believe the Publisher Defendants may be positioning themselves to pick things back up where they left off as soon as their two-year clocks run. Indeed, the very fact that the Publisher Defendants have banded together once again, this time to jointly oppose two provisions in the Proposed Final Judgment that they believe could result in lower ebook prices for consumers, only highlights why it is necessary to ensure that Apple (and hopefully other retailers) can discount ebooks and compete on retail price for as long as possible.”
The back end of a bullpen that includes four rookies has suddenly become the realm of 23-year-old Trevor Rosenthal, who earned three successive saves to close the season after taking over from a struggling Edward Mujica.
I go and testify against doctors who have done bad work and many doctors and the medical council dislike me for that. But I don't mind. I just think the court has to get all the facts before they make a just decision.
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In March 2008, when thedirty.com was still based in Scottsdale, the site posted photos of then-Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart drinking and beer-bonging in a hot tub with young women. In September 2011, thedirty.com reported that Ashton Kutcher was cheating on Demi Moore in San Diego.
The potential rewards from frontier markets come with highrisks. During the last financial crisis, MSCI's InternationalFrontier market index lost about two-thirds of its value ineight months. And it is still only worth a little more than halfof what it was in early 2008.
If they were buried in a wooden box, as he suspects, few traces may ever be found. What is exciting for him and his team, however, is the proximity of the tomb to other buildings which included a public baths, a mosque and an inn for visiting pilgrims.
Campos is well-regarded by business leaders, and his party was part of Rousseff's governing coalition until earlier this year. He broke ranks after criticizing her for excessive intervention in Brazil's economy, which has struggled with slow growth since Rousseff took office in early 2011.
The lawsuit does not challenge two other restrictions that would prohibit abortion 20 weeks or more after the date of fertilization, except to save the life of the mother, and would require major upgrades to most abortion clinics to meet hospital surgical standards.
From the AP: A happy soul. A good mother, wife and daughter. Artistic, fun-loving, witty and hardworking.Remembering their daughter, Anne Marie Murphy, her parents had no shortage of adjectives to offer Newsday. When news of the shooting broke, Hugh and Alice McGowan waited for word of their daughter as hours ticked by. And then it came.Authorities told the couple their daughter was a hero who helped shield some of her students from the rain of bullets. As the grim news arrived, the victim's mother reached for her rosary."You don't expect your daughter to be murdered," her father told the newspaper. "It happens on TV. It happens elsewhere."
Joan Walley, who chairs the committee, said: "I am disappointed that the government has not accepted the great weight of scientific evidence that points to the need for the ban on these pesticides in line with the precautionary principle."
Woltz (John Marley) invites Hagen to dinner, shows him around his impressive mansion and takes him to meet Khartoum, the beautiful thoroughbred racehorse he has recently bought for $600,000 and for which he has erected a state-of-the-art stable. Woltz is adamant about his decision, announcing that “Johnny Fontane will never get that movie!” but adding that he is willing to grant Corleone another request, if he has one. Hagen politely leaves, having explained that “the Don never asks a second favour when he has been refused a first”. The next morning, when Woltz wakes up, his bed is sodden with blood. Throwing back the covers, he sees Khartoum’s severed head. Fontane gets the movie.
We love the all over embellished look Aamanda is rocking and the sexy racer back gives it a sports luxe vibe as well. Gucci isn't the only high end brand to sew on some extra sparkle this season - Christopher Kane, Jenny Packham and Antonio Berardi all sent glittery girls down their SS/13 runways.
Senior League figure Roberto Calderoli, vice president of the Senate, told a political rally at the weekend that Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge had "the features of an orangutan", prompting widespread calls his resignation.
On this week's Daily News Fifth Yankees Podcast, Mark Feinsand is joined by WFAN's Sweeny Murti during the final day of the season at Yankee Stadium as they talk about Mariano Rivera's emotional Bronx farewell.
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military prosecutor portrayed Private First Class Bradley Manning on Thursday as an egotist who betrayed the trust of the US government when he leaked vast archives of secret documents to WikiLeaks, lifting a veil on diplomatic and military activities.
The settlement follows one month after it paid $920 millionto four other U.S. and British regulators to resolve probes ofthe bank's $6.2 billion in derivative losses involving its chiefinvestment office.
One of the challenges for publisher websites is that much of the most valuable data is associated with a cookie that can be easily deleted (and often are, at rates that can vary drastically by user). Therefore it’s often not possible, and indeed can be highly misleading, to analyze user data over e.g. a 30 day period in the way that you describe.
The spread between the 10- and 30-year yields narrowed to101.5 basis points after hitting a four-month high of 108 basispoints reached last week, while the 10- and 20-year spread easedto 90.5 basis points from last weeks' four-month peak of 94.5basis points.
Expedia ranked among the most active names tradedon the Nasdaq. Shares of the online travel agency plunged 25.5percent to $48.41 a day after it reported a quarterly profit farshort of market estimates.
Believe it or not, some of the harshest attacks on Hollande’s presidency come not from the Right but the Left. Many are actually arguing that the government has sold out to conservative ideology. It almost makes you feel sorry for him.
Telecom Italia, which risks having its credit rating beingcut to junk in the coming weeks, has struggled to grow becauseof its 29 billion euro ($39 billion) debts and a deep economicdownturn in its Italian home market. ($1 = 0.7384 euros) (Writing by Danilo Masoni; Editing by Silvia Aloisi and AnthonyBarker)
His other son Pietro, the chosen heir to run the Piedmont-based empire, died of a heart attack in 2011 while riding a bicycle in South Africa. He was 47 and his death opened the way for the ascent of younger brother Giovanni, whom industry insiders consider less interested in running the business.
Wounded by the casual brutality with which Gielgud jettisoned his drama, Rattigan abandoned it. Spreadbury-Maher learned of the play’s existence during Rattigan’s centenary celebrations in 2011 and began planning its theatrical premiere, almost 80 years after it was written.
Orr, the city's emergency manager, contends the city faces$3.5 billion in unfunded liability, though the city prior toOrr's estimate in June had put the unfunded liability at $644million for 2011. A larger unfunded liability could increasepressure on retirees and workers to make concessions to helpDetroit fix its failed finances.
Aug 1 (Reuters) - Shares of American Homes 4 Rent,the second largest single-family homeowner, fell as much as 3percent in their debut as investors remained wary about thecompany's ability to turn a profit any time soon.
Bee stings have also been used by sufferers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an often disabling the disease that attacks the central nervous system.  The National Multiple Sclerosis Society of the US says on its website: “In spite of long-standing claims about the possible benefits of bee venom for people with MS, a 24-week randomized study showed no reduction in disease activity, disability, or fatigue, and no improvement in quality of life.”
* Petronas plans to sell down its stake in a $20billion Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project toas low as 50 percent, as it seeks to share the cost of bringingcheap energy to Asia, three people familiar with the mattersaid.
When the Boston Celtics traded aging pieces from their illustrious past (and Jason Terry) for foundational assets geared towards creating a celebrated future, a range of emotions swept through basketball fans across Massachusetts. On draft night people were filled with a mixture of fury and sadness. Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were gone. Two creaky [...]
The shutdown might last two weeks and approach the October 17 date Lew mentioned, "then the whole thing ratchets up in intensity," said David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors in Sarasota, Florida.
At that time, he was inquiring internally about whethercertain firms including Kirkland & Ellis; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,Wharton & Garrison; WilmerHale; Latham & Watkins, and ClearyGottlieb Steen & Hamilton were representing clients in SECcases.
China's swallowing up of Smithfield, a well-known U.S. brand founded by a father and son who began smoking hogs in 1936 in rural Virginia, illustrates two things about the country: its swelling economic power and growing hunger for meat-based diets.
In charge of restorations is Chandrasiri, a bodywork repair expert who's worked there for 20 years. Shirtless and sandalled in the midday heat, he fashioned a custom repair section for a rusted door with an ease borne of years of experience. As I watched, he measured, snipped, hammered, checked and hammered again until it fitted like the final piece in a jigsaw. Later he showed me a new gutter section he'd made that looked as if it could have come from the original factory.
DUBLIN, July 13 (Reuters) - Occupying a single floor of athree-storey building in a suburban Dublin office park, WesternUnion's offices are notably modest for the internationalheadquarters of the world's largest money transfer firm.