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A Film and its Era: Le petit monde de Don Camillo (Julien Duvivier)

Julien Duvivier shot The Little World of Don Camillo in 1952. Portrait of a film: Just after WWII, in an Italian village in Emilia-Romagna, priest Don Camillo and communist mayor Peppone fight for the backing of their constituents. Formerly drawn…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6205

A Film and its Era: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

Stanley Kubrick directed A Clockwork Orange in 1971. Portrait of a film: in England, in the near future, the Droogs gang spreads terror through gratuitous acts of violence. Arrested for murder, Alex, their leader, agrees to serve as a guinea pig for…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6206

A Film and its Era: Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)

Louis Malle shoots Lacombe Lucien in 1973. Portrait of a Film : A small town in the South-West of France in June 1944, shortly after the Allied landings. Son of peasants, Lacombe Lucien seeks to join the Resistance, but he is considered too young…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6207

A Film and its Era: One Flew over a Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)

Milos Forman shoots One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. It is the first film produced by Michael Douglas. Portrait of a film: In order to escape prison, a delinquent (Jack Nicholson) manages to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. There he…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6208

A Film and its Era: La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)

Mathieu Kassovitz shoots Hate in 1995. Portrait of a film: punctuated by the relentless countdown of a predetermined drama, Hate is the story of three young friends from a low-rent housing zone on the outskirts of Paris, the day after a night of…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6209

A Film and its Era: Le père Noel est une ordure (Jean-Marie Poiré)

Jean-Marie Poiré shoots Santa Claus is a Stinker in 1981. Portrait of a film: Christmas Eve at the headquarters of “SOS Distress Friendship”. While a desperate man commits suicide over the phone, all sorts of characters arrive unannounced at the…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6210

A Film and its Era: Le Charme discret de la Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)

Luis Buñuel directed The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in 1972. Portrait of a film: Belonging to the same circle of worldly notables, six characters try repeatedly to share a meal but each attempt fails, due either to the intrusion of strangers…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6211

A Film and its Era: A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)

Portrait of a film: Suzanne, aged only 15, collects sexual encounters. Her father, whom she admires, suddenly leaves the conjugal home. Now living with her half-mad mother and her despotic brother, Suzanne decides to flee. She engages in a loveless…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6212

A Film and its Era: All about my mother (Pedro Almodovar)

Portrait of a film: Manuela, a single mother, accidentally loses hes 17 year old son and starts searching for the father of the child. The latter lives as a transvestite prostitute in Barcelona. The film offers a gallery of women’s portraits - nurses…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6213

A Film and its Era: Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)

Sydney Pollack directed Three Days of the Condor in 1974. Portrait of a film: Joseph Turner aka Condor, played by Robert Redford, is an unsuccessful novelist who works for the CIA, reading spy novels in search of ideas or leaks. One day, returning…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6214