Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Serge Alexandre Stavisky (20 November 1886 – 8 January 1934) was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair. [1] [2] Early life. Alexandre Stavisky was a Russian Jew [3] born in modern-day Ukraine, whose parents had moved to France. [4] Career.
The Stavisky affair was a financial scandal in France in 1934, involving embezzler Alexandre Stavisky. The scandal had political ramifications for the Radical-Socialist government after it was revealed that Prime Minister Camille Chautemps had protected Stavisky, who died suddenly in mysterious circumstances.
Stavisky... is a 1974 French biographical drama film based on the life of the financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky and the circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair, which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two prime ministers and a change of ...
Stavisky affair, French financial scandal of 1933 that, by triggering right-wing agitation, resulted in a major crisis in the history of the Third Republic (1870–1940). The scandal came to light in December 1933 when the bonds of a credit organization in Bayonne, founded by the financier Alexandre.
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May 15, 1974 · Stavisky: Directed by Alain Resnais. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Périer, Anny Duperey, Michael Lonsdale. A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Alain Resnais
- 1974-05-15
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A violent antiparliamentary riot on and around the Place de la Concorde left 15 dead and 1,435 wounded. For the only time in the history of the Third Republic, sedition forced out a sitting government, that of the Radical Édouard Daladier.
Incredible as it seems, the malodorous sharper and swindler, Alexandre Stavisky, who in the days of his flashiest opulence was regarded only with shrugs of contempt and eyebrows lifted in scorn,...
