Interviewee
A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"
Director
A documentary about Susan Sontag staging Waiting For Godot in Bosnia.
Producer
In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld.
Producer
In the absence of her royal husband Theseus, thought to be dead, Phaedra declares her love to Hippolyte, Theseus's son from a previous marriage.
Producer
Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house.
Producer
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.
Producer
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Guernica, the defense of Madrid, the International Brigades, are some of the items comprised in this document.
Denise Bloch
Londres, Inglaterra, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Após uma trágica experiência de vida, a jovem Violette Szabo se junta ao Executivo de Operações Especiais e atravessa as linhas inimigas alemãs como agente secreto para ajudar um grupo da Resistência francesa.
Marie Curie
The life and work of the pioneering scientists, told through the words of Marie Curie.
Catherine Grandpré
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes his life to bringing Maurice back into the fold. Things don't turn out quite as Gerard hopes, however; he has not reckoned with the possibility that Maurice may have been driven into insanity by his raging self-hatred.
Jacqueline Mussot
By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
Elisabeth
Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) é muito protetora de seu irmão, Paul (Edouard Dermithe), atingido por uma bola de neve na escola. Os irmãos são inseparáveis e vivem na mesma casa, lutando, jogando, e raramente saem dela. Um dia, Elisabeth, traz para casa Agathe (Renée Cosima) para viver com eles, ela tem uma forte semelhança com Dargelos (Renée Cosima), um estudante por quem Paul estava apaixonado, e que o tinha ferido. Paul e Agathe atraem-se mutuamente, causando ciúmes em Elizabeth.
La Nièce
Em uma aldeia francesa durante a ocupação, um senhor de idade e sua sobrinha são forçados a acolher um soldado alemão. O homem é atencioso e a favor da reconciliação entre os dois países, mas cada tentativa de conversa é frustrada pelo silêncio teimoso de seus anfitriões.
