Desc: Gérard Philipe: un homme pas un ange: Directed by Michel Viotte. With Françoise Arnoul, Maurice Chevalier, René Clair, Jean Cocteau. Just after the Second World War, he was a bit like the French James Dean, the embodiment of the aspirations of young people of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Forty-five years after his death, the myth of Gérard Philipe is still present.