Émile Couzinet

Émile Couzinet

Émile Cousinet, dit Couzinet, né le 12 novembre 1896 à Bourg (Gironde) et mort le 24 octobre 1964 à Bordeaux, est un producteur de cinéma et réalisateur français. Fils d'un menuisier, Couzinet devient projectionniste ambulant puis directeur du Casino de Royan. Dans les années 1920, il décide d’investir dans l’exploitation de salles de cinéma, y compris d'art et d'essai. En 1930, à cause de la concurrence effrénée des barrières de Bordeaux, il acquiert ses propres studios, les Studios de la Côte de Beauté, un complexe cinématographique installé dans la station balnéaire de Royan. Après la destruction de la ville à l'issue de la seconde guerre mondiale, il récrée ses studios à Bordeaux, qui prennent alors le nom des Studios de la Côte d'Argent. Il produit lui-même des vaudevilles dont il est aussi le scénariste (à l'occasion sous le nom de Robert Eyquem) parfois au premier degré ou un peu grivois, souvent adaptés du théâtre de boulevard. Ainsi, Trois Jours de bringue à Paris est une adaptation de La Cagnotte d'Eugène Labiche alors que Le Don d'Adèle est inspiré d'une pièce de Pierre Barillet et de Jean-Pierre Grédy. Pilier représentatif du cinéma populaire – son slogan est « On y rit, on ira » –, il produit des films jubilatoires dont Le Club des fadas, Trois Vieilles Filles en folie, La Famille Cucuroux, Le Congrès des belles-mères, ou encore Mon curé champion du régiment. Si la comédie est son domaine de prédilection, Couzinet touche aussi à d'autres genres comme le film de cape et d'épée (Buridan, héros de la Tour de Nesle), l'adaptation littéraire (Colomba d'après Prosper Mérimée) ou le mélodrame familial (Quai des illusions, film pour lequel il emploie comme assistant un certain Sergio Leone). Il fait tourner de grands noms du cinéma de l'époque, comme Pierre Larquey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir ou Gaby Morlay. Mais il suscite également les débuts d'acteurs truculents tels Jean Carmet, qui apparait dans Mon curé champion du régiment et Robert Lamoureux, qui tient son propre rôle dans Le Don d'Adèle. L'empire Couzinet périclite progressivement à partir de la fin des années 1950 dans le contexte de concentration de l'industrie cinématographique.

  • Title: Émile Couzinet
  • Popularity: 5.214
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1896-11-12
  • Place of Birth: Bourg, Gironde, France
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  • Also Known As: Émile Cousinet
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Émile Couzinet Movies

  • 1954
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    The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

    The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

    4 1954 HD

    The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she...

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  • 1954
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    The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

    The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

    4 1954 HD

    The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she...

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  • 1954
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    The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

    The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

    4 1954 HD

    The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she...

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  • 1954
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    Trois jours de bringue à Paris

    Trois jours de bringue à Paris

    5.5 1954 HD

    A group of inhabitants from Ferté-sous-Jouarre decide to spend their jackpot on a three day trip to Paris.

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  • 1953
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    Quand te tues-tu ?

    Quand te tues-tu ?

    1 1953 HD

    A viscount is ruined and wants to commit suicide. A young noceur pursued by his creditors is to inherit 60 million on condition that he marries a...

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    La Famille Cucuroux

    La Famille Cucuroux

    6 1953 HD

    An aristocrat short of the readies, Gontran, is to marry a wealthy girl of common birth; but he has to get rid of his lover.

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  • 1956
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    My Priest, Champion of the Regiment

    My Priest, Champion of the Regiment

    2 1956 HD

    How a weak priest, armed up with love, a hat, an umbrella and a breviary became the regiment's champ.

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  • 1957
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    Trois marins en bordée

    Trois marins en bordée

    1 1957 HD

    The marchioness of Botarin secretly exchanges passionate letters with Jean, a young sailor. What Jean doesn't know is that the lady of his heart is...

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  • 1952
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    The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour

    The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour

    1 1952 HD

    The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.

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    The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour

    The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour

    1 1952 HD

    The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.

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  • 1952
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    The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour

    The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour

    1 1952 HD

    The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.

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  • 1959
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    Quai des illusions

    Quai des illusions

    1 1959 HD

    Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she...

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  • 1951
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    Le Don d'Adèle

    Le Don d'Adèle

    5 1951 HD

    This is the disaster for the Veyron-Lafitte. Régine, the maid, has just given up her apron and the meal is not ready for the dinner guests,...

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  • 1940
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    L'intrigante

    L'intrigante

    1 1940 HD

    A father falls in love with his son's mistress whom he has forced to emigrate to force him to break up. More carefree than a schoolboy, he ruins...

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  • 1942
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    Andorra or The Bronze Men

    Andorra or The Bronze Men

    1 1942 HD

    A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.

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  • 1956
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    My Priest, Champion of the Regiment

    My Priest, Champion of the Regiment

    2 1956 HD

    How a weak priest, armed up with love, a hat, an umbrella and a breviary became the regiment's champ.

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  • 1939
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    Le club des fadas

    Le club des fadas

    1 1939 HD

    Desiring to give his compatriots a taste for laughter, a comic Marseilles founds a club with friends whose joke is the reason for living and tries to...

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  • 1943
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    Le brigand gentilhomme

    Le brigand gentilhomme

    1 1943 HD

    A gentleman, falsely accused of an assassination, becomes a formidable bandit. Condemned by the king, he will be rehabilitated thanks to the...

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  • 1959
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    Quai des illusions

    Quai des illusions

    1 1959 HD

    Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she...

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  • 1947
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    Hyménée

    Hyménée

    1 1947 HD

    Although Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by his cousin Agnés, a spinster. Marianne loves...

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  • 1948
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    Colomba

    Colomba

    1 1948 HD

    The film is set shortly after the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, around 1818, in which the hero Lieutanatn Orso fought for the French. In Marseille,...

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  • 1949
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    Le bout de la route

    Le bout de la route

    1 1949 HD

    A man, a sort of wandering lyrical or melodious tramp, goes into the countryside. He stops at a farm, disturbs the farmer's wife, turns the heads of...

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  • 1957
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    Trois marins en bordée

    Trois marins en bordée

    1 1957 HD

    The marchioness of Botarin secretly exchanges passionate letters with Jean, a young sailor. What Jean doesn't know is that the lady of his heart is...

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  • 1950
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    Trois marins dans un couvent

    Trois marins dans un couvent

    1 1950 HD

    In a small village, an abbot tries to take lightly the jokes of three men, recalcitrant to religion.

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  • 1950
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    Un trou dans le mur

    Un trou dans le mur

    1 1950 HD

    André de Kerdec, a young lawyer buys an old parchment in an antique shop and discovers that a treasure is hidden in the bedroom of...

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  • 1962
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    Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

    Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1952
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    Trois vieilles filles en folie

    Trois vieilles filles en folie

    1 1952 HD

    A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.

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  • 1952
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    This Rascal of Anatole

    This Rascal of Anatole

    5 1952 HD

    Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the...

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  • 1952
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    Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle

    Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle

    1 1952 HD

    In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.

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  • 1953
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    Quand te tues-tu ?

    Quand te tues-tu ?

    1 1953 HD

    A viscount is ruined and wants to commit suicide. A young noceur pursued by his creditors is to inherit 60 million on condition that he marries a...

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  • 1953
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    La Famille Cucuroux

    La Famille Cucuroux

    6 1953 HD

    An aristocrat short of the readies, Gontran, is to marry a wealthy girl of common birth; but he has to get rid of his lover.

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  • 1962
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    Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

    Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1962
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    Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

    Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

    1 1962 HD

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