The best Jean Dasté’s history movies

Jean Dasté

Jean Dasté

18/08/1904- 15/10/1994
Today we present the best Jean Dasté’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jean Dasté’s movies.

Z

Z
8.2/10
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.

Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion
8.1/10
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Molière

Molière
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 30/08/1978
  • Character: Le grand-père de Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.

Sorceress

Sorceress
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 23/09/1987
  • Character: Christophe
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.

Life Is Ours

Life Is Ours
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 07/04/1936
  • Character: L'instituteur / Teacher
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

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