Picassos Friseur (2001)
Gênero : Documentário, Cinema TV
Runtime : 58M
Director : Felix Breisach, Monika Czernin
Sinopse
In 1948 Pablo Picasso met the hairdresser Eugenio Arias. Both were linked by the fate of emigration. If Picasso initially only had his hair cut by Arias, a deep friendship soon developed.
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A não-convencional vida de Wiliam Marston, psicólogo e inventor de Harvard que ajudou a tornar real o Detector de Mentiras e que também criou a Mulher-Maravilha, personagem dos quadrinhos, em 1941. Marston mantinha uma relação polígama envolvendo sua esposa Elizabeth Marston, psicóloga e inventora, e Olive Byrne, uma ex-aluna que virou acadêmica. Essa relação e os ideais feministas das duas mulheres foram essenciais para a criação da personagem.
A história de um dos maiores artistas homossexuais do século XX, Touko Laaksonen, mais conhecido como Tom da Finlândia. Ele não conseguia viver em paz dentro de sua casa, tendo que esconder seus segredos pessoais, mesmo depois do trauma de ter ido para a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Touko dcide então se expressar na arte.
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
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Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.
A man wakes up with a terrible feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home.
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Operating under a pseudonym which means 'no boundaries' - North Korean defector Sun Mu creates political pop art based on his life, homeland, and hope for a future united Korea. His hidden identity is nearly compromised when a massive historical exhibit in Beijing is shuttered by Chinese and North Korean authorities.
A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.
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