Renato Berta

Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only as a seamstress but also as a repository of memories and wisdom. A tragic event will challenge the desire of each sibling to carry on.

Август 1961 года. После изучения всех пещер Северной Италии спелеологическая группа отправляется на юг, чтобы найти неизвестные ранее пещеры.

Красочная биография неаполитанского комедиографа-революционера, размышляющая над природой творчества и семейственности.

Люк едет в Париж сдавать экзамены на плотника. В школе он знакомится с Джамилей, и у них завязывается короткий роман. Вернувшись домой, Люк увлекается Женевьевой. Запутавшись в своих романтических историях молодой человек решает закончить обе и заняться - на радость отцу - своим будущим. Пока однажды к нему не приходит настоящая любовь.

"The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a planned economy. The revolution we are announcing will overturn the entire existing order or it will not take place at all..."

Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take refuge there to escape his past? These are two peculiar creatures indeed. Georges is cynical and no longer expects much from life, while Mavie is still brimming with expectation. Yet something magical happens between them, until Georges' dark secret suddenly catches up with him – and Mavie is caught up in something very different...

Фильм о молодом советском скульпторе, которому поручено создать статую Сталина. Ответственное задание превратит скромного художника в объект пристального внимания КГБ и позволит узнать о «вожде народов» куда больше, чем он сам рассчитывал.

Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.

Итальянская драма посвящена трагической судьбе писателя Джакомо Леопарди. Будущий писатель родился в 1798 году и был настолько болезненным и застенчивым ребенком, что практически не выходил из дома. Свою недолгую жизнь Леопарди провел в огромной библиотеке отца, самостоятельно изучая языки и постигая другие науки. Отшельничество и чрезмерные умственные нагрузки еще больше подорвали его здоровье. Когда Джакомо все же пришлось покинуть родной дом, это стало для него невероятно сложным испытанием.

Davide Pozzi, who oversaw the delicate process of scanning the original camera negative, discusses the restoration of Alain Resnais' 1959 film HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR with cinematographer Renato Berta, a special consultant on the project.

The film is about the failure of (Abu Afif) grandfather of the child (Karim) who owns an old-fashioned property, with the end of the civil war and the passage of days becomes Karim young and immigrants with the timing of the reconstruction of Beirut, Karim finds in that project hope to restore paint and restoration of the structure inherited About his grandfather. It collides with the rehabilitation project when it is discovered that the building is owned by a real estate company in order to establish its place of the Dream Tower. The company succeeds in owning some floors and the building renovation project is stopped for the second time. In the meantime, Karim meets Maya, and they experience a swaying love story in tandem with the problem of demolishing or restoring and preserving the building.

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes.

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains…

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.

Мать с двумя дочерьми многие годы скрывается в заброшенном доме. Никто не знает об их существовании. Однажды в этот дом возвращается сын бывших владельцев со своей невестой. И тогда тайная жизнь трех женщин оказывается под угрозой...

Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d'Artémide is based on Cesare Pavese's "Dialogues of Leuco", which had already been adapted by Straub et Huillet as Ces Rencontres Avec Eux (2006).

These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pavese's abstract, philosophical work.

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.

A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

Главная героиня дважды вышла замуж — в США и во Франции, оба ее мужа об этом, само собой, не знают, но однажды встречаются и становятся друзьями.

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.

Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.

In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future Israeli State.

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

6 октября 1973 года. Два молодых человека едут на войну ("война Судного Дня" - Израиль против Сирии и Египта). Один - патриот, хочет поучаствовать во "взрослом деле" и едет на войну с радостью, которая впоследствии исчезает. Другой - молодой человек с жилкой теоретика, начитавшийся Маркузе: по дороге на фронт в своём стареньком "Фиате" он рассуждает о том, как избавиться от ненужных стремлений и не покупать модных машин, навязываемых рекламой. Но, оказавшись пушечным мясом, молодые люди забывают и о патриотизме, и о рекламе, к которой лучше не прислушиваться.

В молодости Мари-Клер и Лизбет были лучшими подругами, почти сестрами. И даже когда любимый мужчина Мари-Клер, Андре Полонский, ушел от нее к Лизбет, девушки остались самыми близкими людьми. У Полонских рос сын Гийом. В день десятилетия их свадьбы Лизбет погибла в автокатастрофе, уснув за рулем. В память о подруге безутешная Мари-Клер устроила фотовыставку ее работ, а вскоре сочеталась браком с вдовцом. И теперь это идеально-благополучная семья: владелица крупной шоколадной фабрики и знаменитый пианист. Но однажды в их дом приходит юная студентка консерватории Жанна Пуле, утверждая, что она дочь Андре…

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.

Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself.

Фильм - не о жизни в иешиве, а об отношениях веры и того, что ей противостоит - догмы.

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.

Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back. He tells stories about Fellini and De Sica's direction, of using irony in performances, of constantly working (an actor tries to find himself in characters). He's diffident about prizes, celebrates Rome and Paris, salutes Naples and its people. He answers the question, why make bad films; recalls his father and grandfather, carpenters, his mother, deaf in her old age, and his brother, a film editor; he's modest about his looks. In repose, time's swift passage holds Mastroianni inward gaze.

Биографическая драма стареющего кинорежиссера Мануэля де Оливейры, который вместе с тремя актерами путешествует по Португалии и вспоминает свою юность. Португалия — это одновременно и конец, и начало Европы, но герои приходят именно к концу, который угрожает вымирающей деревне. Это родина французского актера Альфонсо. «Путешествие к началу мира» — это одновременно вояж к прошлому, настоящему и будущему, которые отражаются друг в друге. В конце повествования становится ясно, что режиссер и актеры готовятся к съемкам фильма, но это только верхний слой фильма-притчи.

Рохерио, богатый молодой человек, и его загадочная жена Леонор устраивают вечеринку в саду свой роскошной виллы на острове Сан-Мигел. Среди приглашенных есть одна весьма занятная пара постарше: философски настроенная и наблюдательная Ирен и престарелый распутник Мишель. Пары «меняются партнерами», словно в танце: Рохерио беседует с Ирен, в то время, как Леонор идет к морю с Мишелем. Если разговор с Ирен расстраивает Рохерио, то беседа с Мишелем всецело захватывает воображение Леонор. Проходит пять лет. На той же вилле накрыт стол на четырех. Мишель и Леонор снова покидают своих спутников. Куда приведут их трудно различимые «подводные течения»?

Знаменитый актер театра Кабуки, выступающий в жанре Оннагата, рассуждает о женственности и взгляде мужчины на женское искусство. Ему вторят легендарные актрисы, танцовщицы и гейши прошлого. Танец и жест значат в этом фильме намного больше, чем слова.

Измена для мужчины — просто сексуальное лакомство. Женщина придумывает историю, в которую верит, воображая, что влюблена. Из сексуальных отношений она готовит для себя «блюдо». Сколько же в измене бессознательного женского притворства. Желательно сделать измену более важным событием в жизни, чем это есть на самом деле. Когда женщине удается взять что-то у мужчины, она не довольствуется этим малым, она забирает у него все. Таково коварство женщин!

Kazuo Ohno, Father of the Butoh Dance, first appeared on stage at the age of 43. He left the stage only at the age of one hundred, three years before he died. This short dialogue less film presents the exceptional range of expressions that this Japanese dancer could achieve, both with makeup and costumes and without.

Drama - This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot find the right cemetery. Later the story shifts to their complex love lives. - Gabi Beniashvilly, Samuel Calderon, Helena Cherkasov

A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. "Cinema watches Death at work." Wilson's actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller's comment: "The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière."

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.

Мюриэль замужем за издателем, который открыто заводит любовные романы. У неё взрослый сын, который скоро будет жить самостоятельно. Единственным развлечением в её пустой, но обеспеченной жизни являются посиделки с подругами за чашкой кофе. Не желая отставать от мужа, Мюриэль тоже заводит интрижку. Чтобы договориться с мужем о разводе, она нанимает частного детектива, чтобы документировать свои измены.

Cannes Festival 1991

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.

Действие происходит в сонной сельской усадьбе на юге Франции в мае 1968 года, когда столица была парализована студенческими волнениями. Смерть престарелой матери пчеловода Милу ознаменовала распад привычного уклада жизни в усадьбе. Собравшиеся на похороны родственники непрестанно выясняют отношения и спорят о наследстве. Воссоединение семейства затягивается из-за того, что даже могильщики подключились к всеобщей забастовке.

В центре сюжета странноватая семья фермеров из Канзаса, которая оказывается запертой в собственном доме из-за надвигающегося смерча.

Lovers Beatrice Dalle and Wadeck Stanczak can't quite cope with the situation when Dalle becomes pregnant. Stanczak fears that his future as an architect will be scuttled by any parental responsibilities. For her part, Dalle wants to keep the baby, but she also wants to keep Stanczak. Attempting to smooth the waters is the couple's mutual friend Francis Frappat. Chimere was the second feature-film project for director Claire Devers, who rose to prominence on the strength of her award-winning maiden effort Black and White.

A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

Вторая мировая война, Франция оккупирована нацистами. Настоятель католического колледжа для мальчиков решается дать приют нескольким еврейским детям. Главный герой, мальчик-француз по имени Жюльен Кантен, подружился с одним из них. И когда гестапо по чьей-то наводке обнаруживает прегрешение настоятеля, и его вместе с еврейскими детьми увозят на верную смерть, это становится для Жюльена страшным ударом на всю жизнь.

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.

Rosa la Rose is the most beautiful prostitute of Les Halles. Every client wants her and she accepts everything. Her pimp is a sympathetic and generous man and there is not much to tell about Rosa’s life. Until one day she meets Julien, a young guy, and falls in love with him. But will it be worthy to leave her life for a madness love?

After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.

In this adaptation of Wuthering Heights set in the south of France in the 1930s, Guillaume wars with his sister Catherine over her affections for their farmhand Roch, of whom he is jealous. A romantic choice, destined for tragic results.

Красивая и необыкновенно сексуальная девушка, из тех, в кого безоглядно влюбляются мужчины, приезжает из провинции в Париж, мечтая стать актрисой. Судьба сталкивает ее с молодым актером, переживающим, как выяснится позже, страшную личную трагедию…

Стажерка в фирме по дизайну интерьера, Луиза, живет со своим любовником Реми недалеко от Парижа. Он хочет жениться и завести детей, но Луиза еще молода, ей нравятся вечеринки и танцы до рассвета. Когда давление Реми становится невыносимым, она снимает квартирку в Париже. Часто проводит время с Октавом, писателем, который мучается и страдает из-за того, что Луиза отказывает ему в близости. На одной роковой вечеринке Луиза встречает Бастьена и приглашает его в свою парижскую квартиру. Очень скоро, однако, она начинает жалеть об этом, поняв, что любит Реми…

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. This documentary, which has achieved cult-like status among opera and music lovers, features former singers who reminisce about their careers and their past operatic roles.

Document on the city of Le Havre. Luc Moullet sets out to show Le Havre not as a single city centered on its port, but as a multitude of neighborhoods and annexed communes, making Le Havre a city of rare diversity. Commentary by Luc Moullet, said by himself. First part of an aborted "Le Havre seen by ...".

Начало 80-х, типичная мелкобуржуазная семья: мама с папой и брат с сестрой. Фильм начинает с того, как сестра собирается в поездку, все ужасно торопятся пообедать, что бы потом ужасно торопиться на поезд, бестолково толкаться на перроне и все для того что бы понять, что времени до отправки еще очень много и теперь можно спокойно сесть и снова начать есть в зале ожидания…

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

Also known as “Letter from Venice,” Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice.

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of Frisch – who was one of the greatest 20th century Swiss writers – nor a filmed adaptation of the novel. Instead, Dindo returns to the locations the author describes in his texts, searching for traces of past events that may turn out to have been more imagined than real.

Изучение сексуальных отношений трех главных героев в разных вариантах.

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.

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Jacques Lemonnier of IBM France, Francois Dalle of L'Oreal and other ultrapowerful French moguls are surprisingly candid -- and cold-blooded -- as they discuss their attitudes about business in this startling 1978 documentary. After sounding off about unions, strikes, hierarchy and management, the subjects realized how callous they sounded and managed to convince the French government to suppress the film.

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab attitude of European culture. The images, mostly a series of Italian landscape shots, provide a backdrop that highlights the meaning of the text. - Fabrizio Sabidussi

After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.

Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age of 25.

In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling conditions, it was widened to accommodate automobiles in 1972. The tunnel links the Rhineland in Germany with Italy and goes through the Swiss mountains. The many lives lost in the building of the first tunnel were considered to be one of the costs for economic progress. In one re-enactment, a strike for better conditions is severely dealt with by the military. Even in 1972, though working conditions were better, most of the men working on the tunnel were poor immigrant workers, with almost no power to negotiate better treatment.

A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Тема этого швейцарского фильма – проверка на прочность, которой идеализм, царивший в 60-х, подвергается в последующее десятилетие. Когда посторонний человек предлагает членам радикальной группировки свою помощь и достает оружие для «акции», они принимают оружие, но отказываются взять его к себе, подозревая в нем агента полиции.

Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited in the Pléiade edition and about whom he has written several books. With Alexander Astruc, he made the film Sartre par lui-même (1976) and, with Antoine Burnier, co-wrote the script of Claude Garretta’s TV film Sartre, L’Age des passions (2006). As a journalist, Contat contributed literary columns for Le Monde since 1978, and as an amateur musician, he was the jazz columnist for the magazine Télérama. His most recent books are Pour Sartre (2006) and André Gorz; vers la société libérée (2009).

Уйдя из дома, Лили Брест зарабатывает себе на жизнь проституцией, деля кров с безработным Раулем, вечно недовольным крохами, которые женщина приносит с улицы. Богатый Еврей, являющийся негласным хозяином Города, встретив Лили на панели, узнает в ней дочь фашистов, ответственных за смерть миллионов его соплеменников. Чтобы унизить их и тем самым свершить изощренную месть, он берет Лили на содержание. Однако вместо триумфа, Еврей попадает в собственную ловушку. Оказывается, он влюблен в Лили, а у той, после происшедшего, в жизни есть только одно желание — смерть…

At the end of the 19th century, an educated white-collar worker finds himself in the employ of an inventor. As he is neither a "worker" nor an "owner," his position in the inventor's household and in the world at large is equivocal. Despite the difficulties he encounters, he tries to hold onto his job in order to support his family, but is eventually fired. This Swiss movie is based on a novel written around 1900 by Robert Walser.

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.

A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and sin. Set almost entirely within a Roman amphitheater whose history lends every precise line-reading and gesture, every startling camera move and cut, a totalizing force.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.

A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.

Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.

With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent have forced him to close down his flea circus. For Weiss, the plague means the «extinction of everything that makes life miserable and low and freedom along with it. Unbeknownst to him, he has won the support of a patron who is of the exact opposite opinion: for Johannes Wagner, the plague is an organising principle, and, aided by his agent Moosbrugger, he is able to smuggle a new number onto the programme. Whereas Ottocaro Weiss means to represent the plague theatrically, what appears on stage is the scientific reality of the rat-borne infestation.

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political manipulation by ancient Roman society led to Caesar’s dictatorship. - British Film Institute

Хватаясь за случайный заработок, журналист Пьер готовит сценарий для телевидения, сюжетом которому должен служить реальный случай, произошедший не так давно - молодая девушка, некая Розмонда, обвинялась в попытке убийства своего дяди, но не нашлось достаточных улик. Пьер обращается за помощью к знакомому писателю Полю, и вместе они начинают раскручивать события. Романист и мечтатель Поль представляет персонаж в романтическом свете, Пьер же, более близкий к реальности, предпринимает попытку собрать факты и выяснить правду...

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

Владелец фамильной часовой фабрики, 50-летний Шарль Де, внезапно решает отойти от дел. Пытаясь разорвать связи с угнетающей его жизнью буржуа из высшего класса, он уходит из дома, исчезая из поля зрения компаньонов и семьи в лице своего сына Андрэ, амбициозного и жаждущего вступить в права владельца фабрики со 100-летней историей. Поселившись в отеле, Шарль знакомиться с молодой парой, ведущей богемный образ жизни и живущей случайными заработками: художником Полем и Аделиной, дочерью судьи, и вскоре переезжает к ним. Проводя дни за чтением книг и разговорами со своими новыми друзьями и дочерью Марианной, единственной, кому известно о его местонахождении, Шарль пытается осмыслить пустоту своей жизни и обрести для нее новый смысл, от которого он отказался в молодости в угоду довлеющего семейного уклада..

Is a classic but biting description of the city Lausanne seen from the inside in its imagination and its history by a native.