Pierre Barouh

Pierre Barouh

Pierre Barouh (born Élie Pierre Barouh; 19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman as an actor and the lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music score. Barouh was born in Paris and along with his brother, Albert, and sister, was raised in Levallois-Perret. Their parents were Turkish-Jewish stallholders selling fabrics. During the Second World War, their parents hid them from the Nazis; Pierre and his sister in Montournais and Albert in la Limouzinière. During these years Élie, baptised Pierre, lived at La Grèlerie, the home of Hilaire and Marie Rocher, who had two sons. From this time, he drew inspiration for songs like "À bicyclette", "Des ronds dans l'eau" and "Les Filles du dimanche". After the war, he was briefly a sports journalist for Paris-Presse-Intransigeant and also played for the national volleyball B team in the 1950s. He spent some months in Portugal and discovered Brazilian music. He visited Brazil in 1959 and on his return to Paris got to know the principal Brazilian writers and composers of bossa nova. With his first earnings he bought the mill, la Morvient, by the river in Le Boupère in the Vendée where he had spent part of his childhood. There he established a recording studio and welcomed other artists, using it to advance the talent of others and creating his own label Saravah in 1965. With the label he wished to mix musicians and styles, to multiply musical encounters. He worked, notably, with Pierre Akendengué, Areski Belkacem, Brigitte Fontaine, Nana Vasconcelos, Gérard Ansaloni, Jacques Higelin, Alfred Panou, Maurane, David McNeil, Elis Regina. Soon after the label's creation, Barouh realised that he was not a manager and so entrusted management to a teenage friend he had known when he was 15 playing volleyball. However, in 1972, he discovered that this friend had stolen 1,500,000 francs by means which prevented Barouh from being able to get any of it back, as he "had given him everything: signatures, etc". As an actor, he played the role of the gypsy leader in the film D'ou viens-tu Johnny? and appeared in Lelouch's Une fille et des fusils. As writer/performer he had success with La Plage – immortalised by Marie Laforêt and the guitarist Claude Ciari -, Tes dix-huit ans and Monsieur de Furstenberg. He shot a documentary on the beginnings of bossa nova with his longtime friend Baden Powell de Aquino. In 1966 he participated in the enormous success of the film A Man and a Woman which won the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Festival de Cannes. He married the actress Anouk Aimée the same year; they divorced three years later. Barouh died in the Hôpital Cochin in Paris from an infarction on 28 December 2016, at the age of 82. He was buried a week later at Montmartre Cemetery. Source: Article "Pierre Barouh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Pierre Barouh
  • Popularity: 0.882
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1934-02-19
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Pierre Barouh Movies

  • 2005
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    Viva Volta

    Viva Volta

    1 2005 HD

    A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his...

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  • 1965
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    To Be a Crook

    To Be a Crook

    5.8 1965 HD

    Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the...

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  • 1966
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    A Man and a Woman

    A Man and a Woman

    7.3 1966 HD

    A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding...

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  • 1961
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    Women and War

    Women and War

    6.3 1961 HD

    In 1944, in a small village in Calvados, just as the Allies landed, a British plane was shot down. The wounded pilot seeks help. All the villagers,...

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  • 1967
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    Live for Life

    Live for Life

    6.3 1967 HD

    Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.

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  • 1966
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    Les grands moments

    Les grands moments

    1 1966 HD

    Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

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  • 1977
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    Another Man, Another Chance

    Another Man, Another Chance

    6.2 1977 HD

    Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild...

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  • 1976
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    The Castaways of Turtle Island

    The Castaways of Turtle Island

    5.8 1976 HD

    Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists...

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  • 2005
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    L'Assassinat de Pierre Goldman

    L'Assassinat de Pierre Goldman

    1 2005 HD

    This film attempts to reveal the reasons behind the death of Pierre Goldman and the identities of his murderers. Reviewing each of the unexplained...

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  • 1963
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    Where Are You From, Johnny?

    Where Are You From, Johnny?

    5.3 1963 HD

    Without knowing it, Johnny, a young rock musician, finds himself involved with a Parisian drug gang. Realising he is being set up, he throws the...

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  • 1967
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    Doomed Lovers

    Doomed Lovers

    1 1967 HD

    The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its...

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  • 1962
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    Operation Gold Ingot

    Operation Gold Ingot

    1 1962 HD

    The owner of a high-tech heating mechanism is being forced by gangsters to help them in a plot to steal gold ingots. An ex-secret agent is called in...

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  • 1972
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    It Comes, It Goes

    It Comes, It Goes

    6.3 1972 HD

    Areski and Elijah, two childhood friends (an Arab and a Jew) suburban neighbors working on a construction site of Place des festivals (Belleville)...

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  • 1969
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    Saravah

    Saravah

    7.5 1969 HD

    Documentary about Brazilian music circa 1969, with extremely rare scenes, such as the only color footage of Pixinguinha, images of João da...

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  • 1964
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    The Drifting

    The Drifting

    6.5 1964 HD

    In the 1960s, Jacquie, a rebellious young woman, turns her back on her family to accompany an itinerant guitar player, Pierre, across France. The...

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  • 1964
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    Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

    Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

    7 1964 HD

    The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with...

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  • 2018
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    Semente da Música Brasileira

    Semente da Música Brasileira

    1 2018 HD

    It tells the story of the musicians who revitalized Lapa, from the end of the 90s, in meetings on the small stage of "Bar Semente". The documentary...

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  • 1982
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    Elle voit des nains partout !

    Elle voit des nains partout !

    4.639 1982 HD

    La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un...

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  • 1976
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    The Labyrinth ou L'album de famille

    The Labyrinth ou L'album de famille

    1 1976 HD

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  • 2005
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    The Courage to Love

    The Courage to Love

    5.333 2005 HD

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  • 1969
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    Saravah

    Saravah

    7.5 1969 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Man and a Woman

    A Man and a Woman

    7.3 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Man and a Woman

    A Man and a Woman

    7.3 1966 HD

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  • 1979
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    Le divorcement

    Le divorcement

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1972
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    It Comes, It Goes

    It Comes, It Goes

    6.3 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    It Comes, It Goes

    It Comes, It Goes

    6.3 1972 HD

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  • 1982
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    Calligraffiti

    Calligraffiti

    5 1982 HD

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1959
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    Discorama

    Discorama

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1976
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    30 millions d'amis

    30 millions d'amis

    5.8 1976 HD

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