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- "Bania" is an exploration of Russian society through its bath-houses in the city, the countryside, in a monastery, a factory or a prison.
- In July 1956, together with the mountaineer Gaston Rébuffat, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet made the first ascent of the south face of the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m/12,606 ft), a magnificent wall of red granite soaring up like a rampart above the Vallée Blanche (the White Valley) in the Mont-Blanc Massif. Thirty-two years later, as if to pay tribute to the memory of his friend Gaston, now deceased, Maurice Baquet once again climbed this mighty crag, suspended between sky and earth, behind Christophe Profit.
- Clinging to the middle of the mountain like so many spiders, a dozen filmmakers and mountain guides busy themselves above the abyss to film Christophe Profit's ascent of Le Dru. Little by little, the director finds himself dreaming of the tranquil seaside holidays he might have had, like so many other nice people.
- The filmmaker advances step by step in the world of Noble Soninke, a man who like many others cleans our offices and takes out our garbage cans.
- The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb three of the highest north faces in the Alps, in winter: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, and Matterhorn. But over and above this 'coverage' of the feat, we discover the wings, the story behind the project, the peaks and troughs of the preparations for it, and the personality of the man behind the climbs, a dancer on sheer rock faces, focusing all the energy and reflexes of life itself in his fingertips.
- Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine, also known as Emir Abdelkader, or Abdelkader El Djezairi (Abdelkader the Algerian), born September 6, 1808 in El Guettana, in the regency of Algiers, and died on May 26, 1883 in Damascus, then in the Ottoman Empire and in present-day Syria, is an Algerian emir, religious and military leader. Barely 20 years old, he federates the tribes and led a struggle against the conquest of Algeria by France in the middle of the 19th century.After his surrender, he was held captive in France before going into exile in Syria where he devoted himself to poetry and established great relations friendship with Paris, which showered him with honors after having intervened in favor of the persecuted Christians in Syria, he intervened by force to protect the Christian families who came to take refuge in large numbers in the Algerian district. of certain death.
- At the age of 77, Roger Lapébie is the oldest winner of the Tour de France still alive. Half a century has passed since his legendary victory in 1937. Yet Roger still covers more than 200 miles each week by bicycle on the highways and byways of the Landes. The portrait of a great, good-natured cyclist, who declares: 'I love my bike more than I love myself.'
- From Orwell to Steven Spielberg, fiction has been able to feed on technical or scientific 'progress in terms of identity control and anticipate them. However, to see Tom Cruise getting your eyes grafted in order to escape iris control in 'Minority Report', you will soon have to slide your finger in a fingerprint reader that will give you access to the multiplex of your city. It is a planetary journey in this 'best of worlds', very real and today growing, that we suit you. A course in video-digital images in a universe of digitized bodies, populated by individuals whose flesh and blood gradually become the only identity.
- The movie is dedicated to the newly built EWHA campus complex, by the French architect Dominique Perrault. It documents the extraordinary solution that Perrault found to accommodate classrooms, offices and space for student's life on 70,000 square meters: he buried the whole building and opened a canyon in its center. It is a landscape.