Marina Vlady

Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. Just turned 91, he has made more than 140 films. We hate him as much as we worship him. Where does his aura come from? From legendary films of course, but also from Godard himself. He is a public figure as much as a man shrouded in mystery. Everything and its opposite, he has taken all possible paths. It is not easy to seize such a legendary, enigmatic giant. Godard’s itinerary follows one direction only: a constant renewal of his art. He sees the creative act as a necessary act of criticism and deconstruction.” I always start from the negative. I am a positive man who starts from the negative”. The artist reinvents himself tirelessly, and inevitably destroys himself. This portrait wants to take us beyond the clichés of a myth that has sometimes become caricatural, to meet a man more sentimental than it seems, a man inhabited, sometimes surpassed, by his art. Because yes, Godard is human. Not just a machine who thinks and creates images.

Documentary about the life of Sergei Parajanov, a prominent Soviet-era filmmaker who was active in Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia and was persecuted by the communist government for his views on the pretext of his homosexuality, which was a crime in the USSR. The centerpiece of this documentary is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a 1965 movie directed by Parajanov, that awakened the Ukrainian national consciousness which had been suppressed by decades of Soviet rule.

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional problem, but only one succeeded.

Water, air, earth, fire, ether. Four different stories that tell and show a reaching out towards immortality. We dedicate the element water to immortality in science, that of air to the immortality of art, that of earth to the immortality of faith and that of fire to the immortality of feelings. Ether, linked to the cosmos and the stars, is a tribute to the film industry.

The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather's writing and in the conflicts of today's Ukraine and Russia. Babel's fiction is woven into Andrei's search with ethereal animation that puts the viewer, like Babel's readers, between fantasy and reality.

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to head to Paris, where they'll be illegal aliens but can at least live openly as a couple. To avoid arousing suspicion until they arrive in Paris, Mohsen and Hassan keep their distance while traveling, and during a train stop, Mohsen helps a sixty-ish women, Yolande, with her luggage. The two strike up a conversation and she clearly enjoys his company; over dinner, she offers to help him find work in town and let him stay at her apartment. It's clear to Yolande that Mohsen is an illegal immigrant, but she doesn't realize that he's gay, and he finds himself wondering if he should stay with Hassan or live with Yolande, where he would not have love but would enjoy safety, security and could easily become a French citizen through marriage.

The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.

Un cineasta sale a la calle con su cámara a tratar de descubrir el misterio de unos gatos sonrientes que comienzan a aparecer dibujados en las paredes de París. Pero el misterio no es quién los hace, sino qué es lo que quiere decir ese gato. Y qué es lo que sucede en esas calles, esa ciudad y ese mundo en los que el gato se manifiesta. (FILMAFFINITY)

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Not All Dads Pee Standing Up is about Zoe and Dan who love one another. They live cheerfully with Simon, their multi year old child, close to Bruges.

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

Francia, 1915. La joven y bella Centaine de Thiry es la mujer más feliz del mundo: en un par de horas se casará con el piloto Michael Courtney, el amor de su vida. Pero el destino tiene otro plan: Michael es derribado en un avión de reconocimiento poco antes de su boda. La vida ha perdido su significado para Centaine. Cuando la joven se da cuenta poco después de que está esperando un bebé, recupera la alegría de vivir. Ella decide dar a luz al niño en Sudáfrica, el país de origen de su difunto prometido.

When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurious villa with some strange relatives. The people inside villa are vampires, they were called upyri in those days in Russia. They suck blood of anyone who comes to see them. The young man too much in love so he looses his head and goes directly to the nest of vampires.

A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival footage, scenes from Perec’s films and to-camera readings of excerpts from his work by various actors and friends of the author (Michael Lonsdale, Marina Vlady, Alain Cuny, Sami Frey, Edith Scob, Harry Mathews and others).

Esplendor es el nombre de una vieja sala de cine dirigida por Jordan (Mastroianni), quien la heredó de su padre. El teatro está en decadencia y solo genera deudas y problemas, pero Jordan recibe ayuda en su búsqueda casi quijotesiana del proyeccionista Luigi (Troisi) y la cajera Chantale (Vlady). Sin embargo, Jordan finalmente se ve obligado a vender el Esplendor al empresario Lo Fazio (Piperno), que planea transformarlo en algún tipo de tienda de muebles. Cuando Jordan deja el teatro por última vez , recuerda los gloriosos días de Esplendor y películas en general.

A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fatal cancer.

An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.

La película describe el despertar sexual y las aventuras de un adolescente Roger durante la época del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Kiev, 1984. Yuri (Christian Clavier), está organizando un concierto para su prometida, la gran cantante Tatiana Fyodorov (Agnès Soral). Mientras que el concierto se desarrolla sin problemas, los padres de Tatiana llegan sin previo aviso y piden a Yuri ayuda para ocultarlos, ya que les busca la KGB.

Unos argentinos, exiliados en París, deciden montar un tango-ballet, dedicado a Carlos Gardel, una legendaria estrella del tango argentino.

Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...

In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.

A journalist very attached to freedom of information conflicts with the management of his channel.

La historia transcurre en la casa del señor Argante quien en su afán de tener compañía se ha convertido en un hipocondríaco quien en todo momento cree tener algún tipo de enfermedad con la intención de reclamar cuidados de parte de su esposa, sus hijas y por supuesto, de su criada Tonina, pero cuando la terquedad del hombre es tal que decide casar a su hija Angélica con un médico sin importar el verdadero amor de la joven.

The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"...

El Triángulo de las Bermudas permanece todavía como uno de los grandes misterios del planeta. Este ominoso lugar, que ha engullido repetidamente cientos de vidas humanas, es el lugar de destino de la familia Marvin y su tripulación de submarinistas. Su objetivo: explorar la ruinas de una ciudad sumergida. Una vez inmersos en el Triángulo, la tripulación comenzará a experimentar extraños sucesos, como la repentina emisión por radio desde un navío dado por desaparecido hace años. La situación se irá haciendo más agobiante y una serie de absurdos e inexplicables accidentes hará que los miembros de la tripulación se enfrenten a un peligroso misterio que no podían imaginar ni en sus peores pesadillas.

Un resuelto ladrón ayuda a un guapo príncipe a luchar contra un mago maligno y a ganar la mano de una bella princesa.

Buscando un lugar seguro donde vivir tras ser acosada por su marido, un hombre depresivo y violento, Juli se aloja en un refugio para mujeres dirigido por Mária.

Es la historia de dos cirujanos, Pierre Losseray y Jean Pierre Berg, que con 15 años de intervalo, y en la misma ciudad de provincias, son empujados al suicidio por las fuerzas retrógradas de su profesión, personalizadas en el profesor Brezé, cirujano, miembro del consejo de la orden. En la lucha que el viejo Brezé mantiene contra ellos, están permitidos toda clase de golpes: chantajes, embustes, acusación profesional y campañas de difamación. Toda esta estrategia es incapaz de derribar la reputación de los cirujanos, el uno, figura aclamada; el otro, médico clínico adorado por sus enfermos, irreprochable y competente.

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.

Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".

A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.

Françoise Legrand, better known as "Sappho", attractive young woman of the Parisian bourgeoisie, flits from man to man with the consent of Maurice Duran-Vior, his rich protector, a renowned financier. At a social gathering, she meets Lionel de Lancey, younger than she, a cool diplomat, and, as usual, she spends the night with him.

A deserter who has lost all hope meets with a little girl in a ruined city.

Compuesta por tres episodios: En "La bomba alla televisione", Gassman interpreta a un director de cine anarquista. En "Concerto a tre pifferi" Manfredi trabaja para un rico empresario cascarrabias y desagradecido. En "Il prete", Sordi interpreta a un párroco de pueblo al que acusan de tener una amante.

The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizinova from Moscow station to arrive from Moscow. Chekhov is alarmed by the upcoming premiere, excited by the meeting with love, which never took place. Memories of acquaintance with Lika, of the experiences caused by the rude scolding of newspaper men who predicted the young writer the inglorious "death under the fence", about the unexpected decision for everyone to go to Sakhalin...

Mary and Louis have been married for 10 years and have 2 children. Louis is a construction worker who, to support his wife and children in a comfort, works more and more. Mary asks Louis to spend more time with his family, but he replies that it is impossible. Marie makes the acquaintance of a former teacher of her son, he seems seduced by Marie who invites her over several times in the company of his children, his home ... The couple become unglued a little more when Louis meets a young prostitute. Can the couple manage to get through this?

Tomando como punto central las vivencias de Juliette, una mujer casada y con dos hijos que trabaja como ama de casa de día y prostituta por la noche, Godard realiza una especie de documental dramatizado sobre las vidas, las sensaciones, los personajes y los caracteres que pueblan el llamado nuevo París de los años 60.

The tranquility of a Romanian village is shattered by the arrival of a beautiful unknown coinciding with the discovery of a new star by a modest professor of astronomy ...

The student rowing team of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) was defeated in the competition. The coach drops the team and leaves, taking the best rowers with him. The remaining athletes decide to assemble a new team, and the management of the institute appoints a new coach for them — a teacher of hydrodynamics.

Una organización que opera desde Tokio quiere vender a los Estados Unidos un arma secreta por cien millones de dólares. Si no aceptan comprarla, amenazan con destruir las bases americanas. Un agente especial, conocido por la clave OSS-117, es enviado para abortar los planes criminales.

A thief (George Chakiris) falls in love with a maid (Marina Vlady) and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."

Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.

Guerra de los Cien Años (ss. XIV y XV). Enrique IV, primer monarca de la dinastía de los Lancaster, usurpó el trono, en 1399, arrebatándoselo a su primo Ricardo II. A su muerte, le sucede, con el nombre de Enrique V, el príncipe Hal, que reniega de Falstaff, su viejo compañero de juergas, y lo condena al exilio.

Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.

Un grupo de amigos fanáticos del "cinema verité" se dedican a filmar todo cuanto les sale al paso.

An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. When he has a confrontation with a white plantation owner, the white man sees red and casts a spell on the African doctor. Although he realizes the curse is an ancient tribal superstition, he still is plagued by the ghost of his late first wife. The black doctor and the white man are assimilated into cultures in which neither of them were born in this vexing jungle tale.

A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.

Un hombre de 40 años, Alfonso, finalmente accede a casarse con una mujer católica, bella y virgen. Pero pronto ella, Regina, comienza a estresarse porque quiere quedarse en cinta. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.

Película dividida en siete cortos, cada uno de ellos protagonizado por un pecado capital.

A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale lacks any attacks from hostile forces but is filled with charming vignettes. In one part of the journey, the boy comes across some fishermen along a river, harpooning their catch for the day. In another segment, he is entertained when some folk dancers do a lively show. But in general, it is too long and unmomentous a journey to hold attention well for nearly two hours.

Comedia acerca de dos hermanas tan coquetas como inconstantes, acostumbradas a abandonarse a todos y cada uno de sus caprichos sin pensar antes en las consecuencias. (FILMAFFINITY)

Dos mineros italianos, Federico y Vincenzo, pasan un fin de semana con dos prostitutas que trabajan en el barrio rojo de Amsterdam, donde se exhiben en los escaparates. Una de ellas se enamorará de Vincenzo...

When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.

The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.

WW2 is coming to an end ;on the seaside,resistant fighters are captured and imprisoned in a basement ;within an hour ,all of them will be shot .An hour of fear ,of impossible dreams ,of false hopes .Based on a Bernanos play ,it sometimes recall ,by the subject of sacrifice (a sacrifice of an average human being is not an average one),"Dialogue Des Carmélites ",in which nuns ,during the French Revolution,were guillotined ,because they would have betrayed their faith if they had accepted the new rules).

Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play mysterious characters who meet up one night in a lonely cabin in the wilds of Normandy. They are both spies, but whom do they work for-the Allies or the Nazis.

Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.

Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.

Convencido de su propia inteligencia y talento, René Brunel (Robert Hossein) decide probar que está por encima de la moralidad burguesa y asesina a una vieja usurera a sangre fría. El comisario Gallet (Jean Gabin), encargado del caso, le perseguirá de forma implacable y sutil, convencido que tiene algo que ver en el asunto. Esa presión asfixiante sumada a las ideas surgidas en sus conversaciones con Lili Marcelini (Marina Vlady), una prostituta a la que ha conocido hace poco, harán que la conciencia de René caiga sobre él, sin misericordia.

In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.

Las aventuras de una joven periodista que se enamora de un hombre acusado del asesinato de su esposa.

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

Casanova se encuentra en España hacia 1760, enamorando a todas las mujeres que se cruzan en su camino, solteras, comprometidas o casadas.

Dos jóvenes campesinos, Angela y Pasquale, prometidos desde hace varios años, siguen posponiendo la boda por motivos económicos. Contando con la aprobación de las familias de ambos, él decide raptarla con el fin de evitar los gastos de la boda. (FILMAFFINITY)

The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le deluge." Set in 1950, the film concentrates on five Parisian adolescents. Certain that the next war will herald the apocalypse, the youngster make plans to run off to a desert island and set up a new society. This, however, will require money, which is why the boys decide to pull off a "necessary" robbery. Idealism collapses in the face of cold reality, as the five youths suffer from the consequences of their actions. Avant le Deluge was one of a group of films cowritten by director Andre Cayatte and Charles Spaak which endeavored to explore the touchy social issues of the day: others in the Cayatte-Spaak canon include the euthanasia-themed Justice est Faite and the capital-punishment tract Nous sommes tous des assassins.

Diversos números musicales inspirados por varias canciones.

Dos jóvenes adolescentes tienen un hijo debido a un descuido.

Un empresario contrata a una agencia de detectives para espiar a su mujer con la esperanza de que la descubran en una traición para poder divorciarse sin pasarla pensión alguna, y poder así casarse con una joven de la que está enamorado. Esta situación desencadenará un dramático chantaje.

La hija de un playboy norteamericano va a un internado en los Alpes, donde la principal materia de estudio parece ser cómo casarse con un rico. Al principio, ha de compartir habitación con una becaria, pero cuando un opulento joven estadounidense demuestra interés por ella, se impone a todas las envidias y resquemores. Pero luego se enamora de un chico pobre de los alrededores.

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.

In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam.

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.

An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.