Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre [SEP] director
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre is a 1989 French film, directed by Denis Amar, and starring Lambert Wilson and Claudia Cardinale. Supporting actor Robert Hirsch won a Best Supporting Actor award from the French Academy of Cinema for the film.
Plot.
Based on a true story, the film recounts the efforts by a parish priest, Father Pierre, to gain assistance from the government for the homeless, who after World War II were living in poverty and suffering from one of the coldest winters
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In 1989, his performance as Abbé Pierre in the film "Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre", for which he received the Jean Gabin prize, won him critical accolades. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, his screen career suffered from a series of box office failures, such as "The Possessed" and "El Dorado".
He later said that the French producers had come, at the time, to regard him as "box office poison". He eventually won back the