Madeleine Robinson
Date of birth: 1917-11-05
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Madeleine Yvonne Svoboda
Biography
Madeleine Robinson (born Madeleine Svoboda; 5 November 1917 – 1 August 2004) was a French actress. She was born to a French mother and Czech father near Paris. She was orphaned at the age of 14, and worked to support herself and her two younger brothers, but enjoyed watching plays. She then studied under Charles Dullin. Her first lead role was in Forty Little Mothers (1936). During the Occupation of France, she had a prominent role in Love Story and Summer Light (both 1943), and The Bellman (1945). Because she had acted during the Occupation, Robinson found it difficult to get work afterwards, but again came to prominence in Une si jolie petite plage (1949). Madeleine Robinson won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1959 for her role in À double tour. In 2001, she was awarded a Molière d'honneur for her contribution to the field. Source: Article "Madeleine Robinson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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The Trial
1962-08-25
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through
A Simple Story
1978-11-22
A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her mid
I Married a Shadow
1983-02-16
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train
Bouquets from Nicholas
1938-01-08
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who
The Gentleman from Epsom
1962-10-03
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive cha
À double tour
1959-12-04
The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committi
Summer Light
1943-03-26
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragic
Between Eleven and Midnight
1949-03-23
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whil
The Mad Heart
1970-04-24
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he ha
Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949-01-19
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pi
Savage Triangle
1951-09-26
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one b
Mannequins of Paris
1956-09-19
Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner
Promesses
1939-04-24
A scout leader enlists a friend of hers who broke off her engagement because of the young man's ruin
Assault
1936-12-31
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of
A Man to Kill
1937-02-25
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes a
Gosse de riche
1938-06-07
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. Sh
La Cité des lumières
1938-12-08
The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has ju
Captain Benoit
1938-12-30
An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by hi
Cinq-Mars
1981-05-16
In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive e
Promise to the Unknown One
1942-10-02
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she
La Croisée des chemins
1942-12-02
A prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband has
The Royalists
1947-03-20
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed.
On Trial
1954-06-04
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumpt
Their Last Night
1953-10-23
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of
The Fugitive
1947-02-07
Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in se
La Grande Maguet
1947-10-22
The orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good chatelai
Sins of Youth
1958-10-31
In a small provincial town, the boarding-house is run by Mathilde Belin, the overindulging and over-
Alone in the World
1952-07-11
François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962-09-14
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more
El juego de la verdad
1963-09-09
Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered
Father's Trip
1966-09-16
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go
Drugstore Romance
1979-07-04
Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, on
Secrets of a French Nurse
1958-02-19
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don'
L'Affaire Seznec
1993-01-07
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the
Grisou
1938-05-11
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled
La Métamorphose
1983-06-05
A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.
The Taste of Violence
1961-08-10
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
Day by Day, Desperately
1961-11-23
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a cou
Demoniac
1957-04-26
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fel
Dark Journey
1962-04-13
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his l
A Trap for Cinderella
1965-10-22
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia
The Bellman
1945-12-04
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown ro
The Opportunists
1960-04-08
The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.
The Teddy Bear
1994-08-10
A renowned gynecologist receives anonymous death threats that seem to be related to his troubled pas
Lover Boy
1978-02-15
"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woma
No Escape
1958-06-25
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The
Je suis un mouchard
1953-04-17
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealous
La rage au cœur
1995-06-05
Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France.
La salamandre d'or
1962-12-31
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Cha
Le Petit Matin
1971-04-21
Nina lives with her family in a superb property in the French region of Landes. She loves her cousin
Un Adolescent d'autrefois
1983-02-17
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young man from the upper middle class tries to escape t
God Needs Men
1950-10-03
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their
Tempête sur l'Asie
1938-04-20
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
Camille Claudel
1988-12-07
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later
Nights of Fire
1937-04-16
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murder
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
1953-05-21
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police offic
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
1992-06-12
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
1978-01-11
Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Itali
The Wonderful Night
1940-12-24
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper r
Forty Little Mothers
1936-11-05
After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow fami
Douce
1943-11-09
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de
Mission to Venice
1964-04-23
An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend wh
Un gosse de la butte
1964-12-02
A young boy lives in a popular part of Paris with his mother...
As Far as Love Can Go
1971-10-20
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris
Tuesday's Guest
1950-06-21
When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of the
Noix de coco
1972-12-11
A Young World
1966-03-25
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced wit
Passionate Summer
1956-05-30
Agata, her daughter Silvia and sister-in-law Pia run a farm lost in the mountains. The hiring of Ang
The Knife to the Throat
1955-11-29
Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his
The Man in My Life
1952-04-16
L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is f
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969-01-01
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Happy Days
1935-11-08
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find wo
The Story of Dr. Louise
1949-12-12
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.
The Barton Mystery
1949-08-19
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappe
The Bouquinquant Brothers
1948-01-11
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted b
Seven Days in January
1979-03-28
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.
Cross of the Living
1962-07-25
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, wh
The Ragpickers of Emmaus
1955-02-23
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bri
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988-10-21
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1988-12-16
Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
1948-04-14
Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects somet
Dialogues des Carmélites
1984-02-15
The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vo