40 years of Puy du Fou: the animators put on the show

Vivement Truffaut

July 1985 •French

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.

Le Club: Claude Jade

April 2001 •French

The Great Ordinary Movie

February 1971 •French

The Ordinary Grand Film is the result of love at first sight with The Ordinary Grand Circus. With film and equipment borrowed from left and right, with the free complicity of all those who appear in the credits, they went on weekends to film a few moments of their tour.

White Man with Black Bread

January 2007 •German

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy to imagine what made him connect with the "RAF". With his irrepressible will for freedom, Christof Wackernagel gets entangled in the horrors of day-to-day life in Africa.

Cirque du Soleil: Quidam

December 1999 •English

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her world and she finds herself in the universe of QUIDAM, where she is joined by a playful companion, as well as another mysterious character who attempts to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling and the terrifying.

Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann

June 2008 •German

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

Back to Normandy

October 2007 •English

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

Omnibus: François Truffaut

December 1973 •English

Dani Lary : Le magicien de l'impossible !

November 2006 •French

The Vintner's Festival - Vevey 1905

November 1905 •French

Being a complete pictorial account of the remarkable "Fête des Vignerons", at Vevey, Switzerland.

Voulez-vous rire avec moi ce soir?

February 2018 •French

French humorist Yacine Belhousse tours the world to explore how stand-up comedians make audiences laugh across cultures.

Conversation with the Beast

February 1997 •German

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.

L'homme qui n'était pas là

May 1987 •French

Charles Elaine, a famous actor, becomes the target of a man who wants to apply to him a theory according to which you can make someone crazy by manipulating him. Rella, a beautiful young woman, is designed to drive Charles crazy.

The Goddess

June 1958 •English

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

March 1988 •Spanish

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Wambo

May 2001 •German

A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.

Garnier et Sentou en Spectacle

June 2012 •French

Robin Hood – The Musical Spectacle

November 2014 •French

A live recording of an amended version of the Robin Hood story, staged at the Palaís des congrès de Paris in January 2014.

Roland Magdane : Les plus grands sketchs

December 2016 •French

Montreux Comedy Festival 2017 - On croit rêver

December 2017 •French