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
Конец немецкой оккупации. В маленьком французском городке, в особняке, который французы именуют Шато, скучает очаровательная француженка. Гремят взрывы наступающей армии союзников, а в доме свита устраивает для своей хозяйки праздник. В разгар веселья на территорию Шато попадает парашютист-освободитель, который тоже не прочь присоединится к гуляющим и прекрасной хозяйке дома…
Producer
Фильм французского документалиста Фредерика Россифа рассказывает о Гражданской войне в Испании в 1936-1939. В фильме представлено большое количество прекрасных документальных киносъемок, сделанных по обе стороны фронтов этой войны – как в тылах, так и на передовых позициях, непосредственно в рядах обороняющихся и атакующих бойцов.
Denise Bloch
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
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 and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.
La Nièce
Тихий провинциальный французский городок времен Второй мировой войны. В дом, где живет молодая учительница музыки Жанна и ее дедушка Андрэ, вселяется молодой немецкий офицер Вернер.
Андрэ и Жанна не могут повлиять на присутствие «гостя», который вдобавок занял комнату погибших родителей Жанны. Поэтому хозяева дома протестуют единственным доступным способом — молчанием. Они не разговаривают с Вернером и не отвечают на его вопросы. Однако молчание Жанны таит в себе не только неприязнь к пришельцу…
