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- B. Traven was a novelist noted as a writer of adventure stories and as a chronicler of rural life in Mexico, where he worked as a field hand, in the early 20th Century. A recluse, Traven refused personal data to publishers, so who was he?
- Life and love of Edith Piaf (Les hommes de Piaf) tells the life of the singer from the perspective of her numerous relationships. Every time, new key songs mark her different love affairs. Her Mon légionnaire' of the thirties echoes the Non, je ne regrette rien' of the last years of her life. As for the Hymne à l'amour' that she dedicates to Marcel Cerdan this song constitutes the backbone of the story. Her sentimental journey follows the course of break-ups and betrayals, in search of those ten minutes of happiness a day'. The biographical elements which emerge from her songs all draw on a shared creed: love. Piaf never ceased to put her life in her songs, and these are a captivating reflection of her love life.
- Based on information from FBI cases, this documentary investigates the dark years of American cinema and attempts to discover the mechanisms leading to one of the most diabolical periods in US history.
- Il aime les femmes et la bicyclette. Il aime aussi son passé. Son appartement du centre de Moscou va être privatisé. L'imminence de son déménagement se confond avec le grand chambardement qui secoue la Russie contemporaine. Comment soixante dix ans de communisme peuvent-t-ils se dissoudre dans léconomie de marché? Que reste-t-il de la révolution? Faut-il quelle survienne à nouveau? A quoi bon ? Une année durant, ces questions traversent la vie de Micha Zaitsev. Ce film est son journal de bord. He likes women, bicycles and memories of days long gone by. His downtown Moscow apartment is on the verge of being put on the market. His impending eviction merges with the great upheaval shaking contemporary Russia. Can 70 years of Communism be erased by a market economy? Has the Revolution been entirely swept aside ? Is there anything worth saving? For over one year, these questions run through Micha Zaitsevs mind. This film is his personal diary.