Producer
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.
Director
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.
Director
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.
Producer
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Director
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.
Production Manager
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Production Director
España, 1937, durante la Guerra Civil. Un pelotón de soldados republicanos planea detener el avance de las tropas rebeldes bombardeando un puente en la carretera de Zaragoza, cerca de la ciudad de Linás. Con la estrecha colaboración de los campesinos de la zona, los soldados intentan superar los continuos bombardeos y soportar la dura e incansable oposición del poderoso enemigo…
Production Manager
Inspirada en la novela homónima de E. Zola. El maquinista de tren Lantier (Jean Gabin) es un hombre solitario marcado por el estigma hereditario de la locura. No puede reprimir su misoginia y su trato con las mujeres es muy violento. Solo es feliz mientras conduce su locomotora que cubre el trayecto desde Le Havre hasta París. Su gran error será hacerse amante de Sévérine (Simone Simon), que querría inducirlo a matar a su marido.
