Sun, Jan 26, 2020
1973-09-11, Pinochet coup. With communication shut down, embassies have to deal with the situation on their own and decide how to manage the people seeking refuge at their doorbells. This documentary relates how French embassy decides not to stay blind and managed to save 600+ activists.
Sun, Jun 14, 2020
It is an exceptional archival treasure. One of those rare books discovered in a family library. From 1925, Arnaud de Roquefeuil, a young Norman landowner, chronicled his life in a form that was new for the time: the comic strip. History wanted him to live through the Second World War. He knew everything there: the Maginot Line and the debacle, the prison camps and the Resistance, until the deportation to Buchenwald. And he drew everything. Never before had his illustrated chronicle been shown to the general public. It is the narrative and visual framework of this documentary.
Mon, Nov 16, 2020
In 1958, Charles de Gaulle took over the reins of France after 12 years in the shadows. The man was fascinated by progress and modernity and decided to accelerate the metamorphosis of France. He launched the Paris ring road, new towns, the sunshine freeway, the RER (regional express train), the consolidation of the countryside, the tourist development of the Languedoc coastline, Rungis and the Maison de la Culture. Behind these great achievements during the "Trente Glorieuses", this film tells the story of this generation that had to rebuild a country devastated by war and invent a new France. They created a consumer society launched at full speed that is difficult to stop today.
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Sun, Dec 13, 2020
During World War II, Russian writers gathered around the famous authors and war correspondents Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman documented the destruction of the Jews in the Soviet territories conquered by the Nazis, in an unpublished work, "The Black Book". But the manuscript is ultimately not published and its authors are hunted down, assassinated or muzzled by the Stalinist authorities. Despite the three million dead, half of the victims of the Holocaust, the memory of the events is erased from official history, until the breakup of the USSR when the manuscript is found and published by the daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg .