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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: Gett (Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz)

„You are hereby permitted to all men“ is the very prosaic wording of the Jewish divorce document named gett, from which the name of the film is derived. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem is the story of an Israeli woman struggling with the religious…
Length
52 mins
Prog. No.
6413

A Film and its Era: King Kong (Merian C Cooper)

Merian C. Coopers’s ‘King Kong’ is released in 1933. Portrait of a film: a cult film in the history of movies.The impossible love story between an Indoniesan gorilla, an oversized brute straight from the dawn of time, with a sexy, out of work New…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6201

A Film and its Era: La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)

Fellini directs La Dolce Vita in 1959. Portrait of a film: in 1950s Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, a celebrity journalist, wanders from party to party, night after night, and above all, from woman to woman. The film is a spectacular portrait of a rich…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6199

A Film and its Era: La Règle du Jeu, (Jean Renoir)

Jean Renoir shot The Rules of the Game in 1939. Portrait of a film: Jean Renoir’s «dramatic fantasy» depicts the provincial French aristocracy with candid humor. From nobles to servants, from a masquerade ball to game hunting, a small community gets…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6204

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: 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: 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: Les Enfants du Paradis (Childre of Paradise) (Marcel Carné)

Marcel Carné’s ‘Children of Paradise’ is released in 1945. Portrait of a film: filmed during the Occupation, Marcel Carné draws out the filming so that it would be the first movie projected at the moment of Liberation. At its release, ‘Children of…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6196

A Film and its Era: Marius and Jeannette (Robert Guédiguian)

Portrait of a film: Marius and Jeanette is the seventh feature film by Robert Guédiguian. In the northern quarters of Marseille, Marius, security guard at an abandoned factory, meets Jeanette, an employee in a supermarket who has just been fired…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6217