Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
Self
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.
Marquis
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
Screenplay
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacques marries her younger sister Mara. Jacques and Mara's first child dies soon after its birth, and Mara begs Violaine to return from seclusion to restore the child to life.
Anne Vercors
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacques marries her younger sister Mara. Jacques and Mara's first child dies soon after its birth, and Mara begs Violaine to return from seclusion to restore the child to life.
Director
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacques marries her younger sister Mara. Jacques and Mara's first child dies soon after its birth, and Mara begs Violaine to return from seclusion to restore the child to life.
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding...
The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the coronation of Arthur, the love affairs of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Bridge of the Sword, the revenge of Morgana until the return of Gilead to the castle of the Fisher King.
himself
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).
Louis-Prosper Claudel
Camille (Isabelle Adjani), la hermana del escritor Paul Claudel, sintió desde niña una gran pasión por el arte y en especial por la escultura a la que dedicó gran parte de su vida. El escultor Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu) fue su maestro, y ella se convirtió en su musa. Entre ambos surgió una tormentosa relación amorosa plagada de crisis y rupturas. La escultora tuvo también una vida personal muy agitada: era una mujer demasiado libre e independiente que no se adaptaba a las costumbres y convencionalismos de su época. Al final de su vida, vivió como una mendiga y acabó siendo internada en un psiquiátrico por sus problemas mentales.
Alfio Cosini sr.
La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988.
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
"What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests the places that Van Gogh covered in Montmartre, but also among other things the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In this place which "looks like an airport" Labarthe imagine an incredible meeting between Vincent Van Gogh and Antonin Artaud. The Artaud's texts are read by Alain Cluny
Plantation Owner
Ravi es un joven que vive en barracones de madera con temporeros árabes. Durante el día recoge fruta y por la noche repara coches en una gasolinera. Sus amigos se ríen de él. No le importa. Conoce el resto del mundo a través de una pequeña radio que escucha todo el tiempo. Aquí en el sur, todo el mundo trabaja para la Compagnie fruitière que cubre todo el valle. El jefe es un viejo que manejaba el negocio por su cuenta. Marty, el contador, dirige un hotel que han construido los socios del jefe. Al leer los balances, se entera de que las cosas cambiarán. El jefe siente que el orden de las cosas cambia y le pide a Gino, el gerente, que lo ayude. Gino está al borde de su ingenio. Miss Cote d'Azur, con quien vive, ya no quiere creer sus mentiras y su amor se deshace ...
El Viudo Xius
Un viejo cronista visita¸ después de muchos años¸ el escenario de esta trágica historia: un pueblo tropical¸ de clima ardiente¸ a la orilla de un gran río¸ donde no pasaba nada hasta que llegó el misterioso Bayardo San Román y enamoró a su más hermosa doncella: Ángela Vicario. Sólo que no era virgen¸ como lo reclamó el indignado novio al devolverla a su familia en la misma noche de bodas. La conmoción fue inmensa. Los gemelos Pedro y Pablo Vicario obligaron a su hermana a confesar el nombre del culpable de su deshonra: Santiago Nassar¸ y no descansaron hasta vengar el agravio con sangre¸ ante la mirada indiferente de casi todos. Basada en la novela de Gabriel García Márquez.
Aigner
The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, which is generally referred to in English as The Vast Domain and was also adapted by Tom Stoppard as Undiscovered Country.
Old Mafioso
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
Mario Cantone
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years, are turned upside down after the death of the leader, Oscar Guarneri. The three aging musicians decide to split up to pursue those pleasures they've denied themselves too long.
Sé stesso
Xul (voice)
Aclamada producción animada del director de "El planeta salvaje". La historia comienza cuando una nave cae en el extraño e inhóspito planeta Perdide. Tal impacto ha eliminado a casi toda la tripulación menos al hijo de una pareja: Piel. Este chico y su única esperanza representada por un micrófono que apoda Mike, serán uno de los varios protagonistas. Este pequeño artefacto, al que el niño atribuye vida propia, es un mecanismo de comunicación que puede soslayar las distancias estelares y encontrar algún receptor. Un grupo de colonos recibe la señal de auxilio y se embarca en el rescate del huérfano. Además, los peligros aumentan, ya que ese planeta ha sido seleccionado para su colonización por una avanzadísima raza de seres.
La voix du pur esprit
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
Barone Nicola Rotunno
Basada en una novela autobiográfica de Carlo Levi ("Cristo si è fermato a Eboli"), destacado escritor y pintor antifascista que, en 1935, acusado de conspirar contra el régimen de Mussolini, fue condenado al destierro en un remoto pueblecito de Lucania (la actual Basilicata), una de las regiones más pobres y atrasadas de Italia. Levi define la situación de los campesinos lucanos como anterior a la era cristiana. El título expresa metafóricamente el hecho de que los medios de transporte, es decir, la civilización, se detengan en Éboli, dejando al margen del progreso el resto de Lucania.
Turpin/der Mönch
Francia, Edad Media. Los comediantes que se dirigen en peregrinación hacia Santiago de Compostela recitan La Chanson de Roland a los aldeanos que se van encontrando en las diversas etapas del camino.
Il conte Davide
El Conde David es un ávido coctelero que aspira a publicar un tratado sobre mezclas de alcohol que él ha creado. Con la ayuda de su esposa Gilda, utlizan su villa como casa de citas para ricos y así recuperarse de las dificultades económicas.
Judge Rasto
En una región del Sur de Italia, un misterioso asesino mata sucesivamente a varios magistrados. Del caso se encarga el inspector Rogas, cuyas investigaciones lo llevan a seguir las huellas de Cres, un farmacéutico que ya había sido condenado por un caso de envenenamiento.
Guido
An Italian film
Self
During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
Le Coryphée
Mario
Una jovencita recién casada viaja a Bangkok a reunirse con su marido, un diplomático francés. En el viaje es iniciada al sexo por una hermosa adolescente y guiada por un hombre maduro en los placeres de la carne, y aprende a materializar sus fantasías sexuales más secretas, animada por su esposo.
Clever, cunning and smooth-talking, Reynard the Fox does not lack imagination when it comes to filling his stomach. A masterful puppetry adaptation of the literary cycle of medieval allegorical fables.
Sitting Bull
Una farsa surrealista muy estilizada sobre los sucesos que llevaron a la última batalla del general Custer, recreados anacrónicamente en una zona de renovación urbana en el París moderno.
Count Paolo Balzeri
A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Virgile
Dante's Divine Comedy in a TV version by Michel Tréguer.
Profesor Woland & Satana
Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
teologa Belga
Amedeo (Enzo Jannacci) es un hombre vulgar y sencillo que llega a Roma desde el norte de Italia con el propósito de tener una audiencia privada con el Papa. Lo que pretende es discutir con él sobre asuntos de carácter filosófico y teológico que le preocupan. Sin embargo, sólo encuentra trabas que le impiden conseguir su objetivo. Llega incluso a ser vigilado por un policía que, compadeciéndose de él, le presenta a Aiche (Claudia Cardinale), una escultural mujer que tiene oscuras relaciones con personajes de la jerarquía eclesiástica.
Il Padre di Enrico
Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.
Self (uncredited)
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Gen. Leone
Drama antibélico. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), en la frontera italo-austriaca, las tropas italianas sufren una estrepitosa derrota al atacar posiciones austriacas. El resultado es un motín de las diezmadas tropas italianas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lica
En la Roma del siglo primero después de Cristo, dos estudiantes, Encolpio y Ascilto, discuten sobre su propiedad sobre el adolescente Gitone. El niño escoge a Ascilto. Sólo un terremoto salva a Encolpio del suicidio. A partir de entonces, Ascilto vivirá una serie de aventuras y desventuras para conocer nuevos amores.
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
Man with cape
Dos trotamundos franceses que, desde las afueras de París, deciden ir de peregrinaje a Santiago de Compostela, conocen numerosos personajes y viven situaciones estrechamente vinculadas a las creencias religiosas
Hans Richter
Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he feels his reason leaving him, while his wife gets closer to his disciple, Friedrich Turner, who has endless admiration for him. After his death, Turner helped make him a legend.
Jean de Brébeuf
A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.
Leonardo Mattioli
Para evitar la corrupción y la inmoralidad del mundo de los negocios, Stefano piensa entrar en un seminario, pero su padre , contrario a esa decisión, lo convence para hacer un crucero. En el barco, el chico conoce a Adriana, una chica arribista y calculadora que, presionada por el padre de Stefano, consigue hacerle cambiar de idea. Abandona. Empieza entonces a trabajar con su padre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hervé Bontemps
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
baron von Eggerth
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, the garage owner. Fortunately, Gus, his childhood friend refuses to follow the pack and talks his mother, the richest person in the area, into getting him a job. But Yan is soon drawn to Maria, the sultry girl Gus lives with.
Cavarzan
Steiner
Marcello Rubini es un desencantado periodista romano, en busca de celebridades, que se mueve con insatisfacción por las fiestas nocturnas que celebra la burguesía de la época. Merodea por distintos lugares de Roma, siempre rodeado de todo tipo de personajes, especialmente de la élite de la sociedad italiana. En una de sus salidas se entera de que Sylvia, una célebre diva del mundo del cine, llega a Roma, cree que ésta es una gran oportunidad para conseguir una gran noticia, y, en consecuencia, la perseguirá por las noches por diferentes lugares de la ciudad.
Henri Tournier
Una mujer burguesa está casada con un hombre respetable y además, tiene un amante español que es jugador de polo. Sin embargo, su vida le parece tediosa. De repente, un día, volviendo desde París a su casa de campo, se le estropea el coche, pero consigue llegar a su casa gracias a la ayuda de una joven. Este breve encuentro la hará recapacitar y plantearse la posibilidad de comenzar una nueva vida.
Claude Frollo
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.
Second Assistant Director
Tras la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), un oficial confederado llega a su pueblo dispuesto a acabar con los abusos y la arbitrariedad del gobernador, un hombre sin escrúpulos y dominado por la avaricia. Esta situación era muy frecuente en los estados del Sur, que fueron ocupados por tropas yanquis al terminar la guerra.
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide.
Lodi
By a twist of fate, the photogenic Milanese shop assistant, Clara Manni, gets the leading role in Italian movie producer Gianni Franchi's romantic drama, "Addio Signora", and becomes an overnight sensation in Rome.
Bueno
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the land neighboring this forest. He refuses the transaction and multiplies the obstacles against the forest exploitation project to which Thérèse resigns herself given Pascal's attitude.
Antonio
Tras terminar la segunda guerra mundial, Bruno (Raf Vallone), vuelve a su tierra tras haber sido puesto en libertad de un campo de prisioneros en Rusia. Su única motivación por esta vuelta, es vengar la muerte de su hermano fusilado por los alemanes al haber sido delatado por alguien del pueblo. Al llegar nadie quiere contarle quien fue el culpable (ni tan siquiera su propia madre), todos sus vecinos insisten en que se olvide del asunto, que todo es agua pasada y es mejor dejarlo estar. Una noche, uno de sus vecinos le dice que se asegure de que nadie le vea y que le siga a cierta distancia hasta su casa, pues tiene algo muy importante que contarle.
Pierre lives with his wife Marie in a small village in the Landes. He dreams of leaving. On the occasion of the passage of a caravan of gypsies, he meets Solita and plans to continue the journey with her. However, he will give up this project out of love for his wife.
Hervé
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
Gilles, a Minstrel
En 1485, el Demonio envía al mundo a dos emisarios, Dominique y Gilles, que se presentan en el castillo del Barón de Hughes, que está celebrando el compromiso de su hija con el caballero Renaud. Como Gilles, en contra de los planes de su Señor, se enamora de la joven, el Diablo acaba presentándose en el castillo adoptando la figura de un viajero.
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Roustan
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
