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Michèle is the new French consul in a South American country. She quickly discovers that the government is, in fact, a dictatorship. Moreover, her seventeen-year-old daughter is involved in the revolution against the regime.
Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multifarious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim.
A 1997 Labour Party Political Broadcast that focused primarily on the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair. Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Molly Dineen, the broadcast was shown on all four channels on 24th April, 1997
A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.
Based on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camps. Several desperate boys in one of the camps begin planing their escape.
Henry VIII is an opera in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns, from a libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre, based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The schism in England) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It was revived in 1991 at the Théatre Impérial de Compiègne in a production by Pierre Jourdan, with Philippe Rouillon as Henry VIII, Michèle Command as Catherine of Aragon and Lucile Vignon as Anne Boleyn. The production was made into this film.
A large chemical company in southern Germany is experiencing strange glitches in its data processing. A hacker has infiltrated the computer system and, for example, ordered 9,999 rhesus monkeys instead of 100, or had 500 marks transferred to all the secretaries. A prankster, perhaps, but still dangerous. CEO Korten hires private detective Selb from Mannheim to investigate the case.
Boy meets girl - a bank robbery - love story - the bad guy wants to ruin everything - his plan is foiled - happy end. A fast-paced genre melange that tells a 90-minute story in ten.
Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhood that influenced her writing.
Jean-Pierre Gorin filmed the rehearsals and premiere of Saint Francis, Olivier Messiaen's monumental opera directed for the Salzburg Music Festival by the American wunderkind Peter Sellars. The result was a first-person documentary in the form of a letter.
Oliver and the much older photographer Hendrik are a couple. A rather contrasting couple: Hendrik has already achieved a lot in his life and is considered an 'old hand' in his profession. Oliver, on the other hand, is only at the beginning of his career as a photographer and has retained a childlike naivety and playfulness in his life plans. Oliver and the young Silvia meet at a photo session. It is immediately clear to the ambitious Silvia that Oliver is her springboard to a modeling career. That same evening, Hendrik proposes to Oliver. But Oliver makes an almost unfulfillable condition: He wants a child! Hendrik is completely at a loss. What should he do? Then Silvia bursts into his house. All she really wants is to be photographed by Oliver. But things turn out differently...
Son of a former Tour de France commissioner, Patrick Le Gall evokes the history of the Tour de France from 1903 to 1996, from Anquetil to Indurain, from Coppi to Poulidor, passing by the coaches, the groupies, the heroes and the anonymous. Unpublished archive images show the great and small sides of the race. These images revisited by the emotion will be a good moment to discover the world of cycling otherwise.
Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.
Police Commander Falcon is on the hunt for a serial killer. When the murderer switches clothes with a vagabond and fools the police forces he resumes his killings and goes after Falcon and his family.
André Payraud, born in 1948 in Passy, Haute-Savoie, nicknamed "the swimmer of the impossible," is a major figure in French whitewater swimming, known by the nickname "Dédé the Carpet." He is renowned for his daring descents of large mountain rivers and for having helped popularize the sport from the 1980s onward. His achievements include swimming down the Mont Blanc torrent in 1980, the first in a long series of filmed feats: swimming Everest in 1982; the Ganges in 1985; the Colorado; Annapurna; the Jordan River—no river can stop Dédé in his quest for adventure. For his whitewater exploits, André Payraud was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit and received the Silver Medal for Youth and Sports. Alongside his exploits around the world, Dédé set up the first rafting company in Haute-Savoie in 1982, in Domancy, Session Raft, Aventures Payraud mont-Blanc..
A day in the life of a homeless man and his guitar on the streets of Edinburgh - told through music and the sounds of the streets.
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders perform a live comedy show in London's West End at the world famous Shaftesbury Theatre, in front of a hugely appreciative sell-out audience. Over an hour of hilarious sketches and gags, with support provided by Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron as Ken and Duane Bishop).
Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother...
This documentary of repressive political realities in Cameroon begins with the 1990 publication of an open letter to President Biya calling for a national conference - and the immediate arrest of the letter's author and publisher. The narration then examines the nation's colonial history, beginning with the first German missionary in 1901, the establishment of schools, French occupation following World War I, the paucity of books written by and published by Cameroonians, and the repression of the CPU, a leftist organization of the 1950s and 1960s. Cameroon and its people are the lark, its feathers plucked first by colonialism and then by native strongmen: 'Alouette, je te plumerai.'
Interviews with the planners and architects Egbert Kossak, Dieter Patschan, Gerhart Laage, Günter Wilkens and Ingrid Spengler, who worked in Allermöhe and explain their work.
A complement to the previous film (Numéro 4, 1989) : the fictional hero has the power to stop the projector, returning the cinema to its photographic origins, killing its motion. Having the unfortunate idea of taking his self-portrait, he finds himself caught in a photograph, condemned to live in the fleeting reality of the single frame.
Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she played Desdemona.
Lee and Alice become involuntarily involved with a man whose style of courtship is distinctly over the top.
Healthy eating for children is explained and how children can help themselves to improve their well-being, health and performance by eating properly.
Bele is 16 and has big hands and feet. Nothing's right: neither her coat, her first love, nor the first video she shoots with friends. And Agnes, her wonderful mom, isn't right either. Agnes is the opposite of Bele: She is pretty, successful, perfect. She gets the good things that life has to offer, such as a fulfilling job and a new lover. If only it weren't for her daughter Bele, who mercilessly expresses her needs as only a 16-year-old "bad girl" can.
Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.
This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the class to a military camp and a nature outing for urban kids. While there a boy is brutally murdered and they blame one local girl. During her trial, Pabst speaks out against Hitler and becomes pariah. Still he continues investigating the death, at great personal expense until at last he brings the real killer to justice.
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be smooth and confident as he imagines other men to be?
In 2015, the world's powers will destroy each other. As always, the world population is suffering. When bacteriological weapons are also used, it happens: the undead rise from their graves and eat the living, which in turn mutate into zombies and go on a manhunt.
Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes a millionaire overnight; she cracks the lottery jackpot. Luise and her daughter buy a villa with a butler from a wealthy Englishman. The butler takes on the almost impossible task of training them to be posh ladies.
A dying Nazi war criminal gives a treasure map to his teenage neighbor. The boy goes after the gold and finds himself the target of a Nazi manhunt.
A group of near-naked women dance and leap about on a beach.
Elodie is sixteen years old. For several months now, her great love affair with Harry, a high school classmate, has been helping her forget her father's absence and the dreariness of the suburb where she lives with her mother. But a few days after her birthday, reality suddenly catches up with her when she discovers she is pregnant. Faced with a fait accompli, Harry procrastinates and hesitates. Elodie, however, once the shock of the discovery has passed, does not feel capable of having an abortion. The contradictory advice she receives from those she turns to in her distress does not help her to keep a clear head...
Bizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert. Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989.
Interview with the wife of French film director René Clair about his life and work.
Penned by composer Thomas Ades, this contemporary opera is based on the life of the Duchess of Argyll (played by Mary Plazas), who's fallen on hard times in old age. A notoriously oversexed money-grubber in her younger days, the down-and-out duchess faces eviction from the hotel she calls home. Heather Buck, Daniel Norman and Graeme Broadbent also star in this uninhibited production, with Ades conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
The Stranglers performing live in Rennes, France
The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.
This documentary by Amos Gitai is a personal look at the aftermath of the Rabin assassination.
A poem-like tribute to Japanese photographer Koji Inoue, narrated in sign language by deaf actor Levent Beskardes.
Tracklist 1 Don't Want To Forgive Me Now 2 Wishing I Was Lucky 3 Get Ready 4 Temptation 5 She Might Never Know 6 Somewhere Somehow 7 Love Is My Sheperd 8 Someone Like You 9 Julia Says 10 East Of The River 11 Lip Service 12 I Can Give You Everything 13 Roll 'Um Easy 14 Celebration 15 Gypsy Girl 16 With A Little Help From My Friends 17 Goodnight Girl 18 High On The Happy Side 19 Love Is All Around 20 Home Tonight 21 All You Need Is Love
A man finds his image in a mirror, undertakes a discussion.
White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion.
Satan worship, human sacrifices, witchcraft and the black arts... all to cover up a terrible crime: drug trafficking. A true event that shocked the world!
Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.
A fictional "film diary" recounts the hunt for the "Blinde Kuh" (Blind Cow), a lost experimental setup by the Nazi "Fernseh-Gruppe" (Television Group), whose television technology was in the testing phase during World War II.
Heinz rents an exciting looking film from a video store and makes his way home, which is peculiarly filled with obstacles and dangers. When he reaches the comfort and safety of his home and takes his place in front of his television, things take a dangerous turn.