Marianne Oswald

Montparnasse, el barrio bohemio de París, está lleno de artistas que aspiran a triunfar, aunque muy pocos lo consiguen. En 1919 vivía allí el pintor italiano Modigliani, que arrastraba una miserable y tormentosa existencia, ya que su arte no era comprendido y su único consuelo era el alcohol y las mujeres. Siempre enfermo y borracho, su vida se dividía entre una tabernera y una rica inglesa que le proporcionaba opio y pagaba sus facturas. Una mañana en la academia de dibujo, conoció a Jeanne, una joven burguesa, de la que enamoró inmediatamente. Decidido a emprender una nueva vida, le propuso que se fuera a vivir con él.

Short film by Harry Kümel based upon a poem by Jean Cocteau.

The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the house.

Adaptación del clásico de Victor Hugo, con una exuberante Gina Lollobrigida como Esmeralda y el siempre excelente Anthony Quinn interpretando al tierno jorobado enamorado de la bella zíngara.

Adaptación del drama "Romeo y Julieta", de Shakespeare. En Venecia, dos jóvenes van a revivir el drama de Shakespeare: Angelo, un vidriero de Murano, y Georgia, hija de un magistrado fascista.

Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.