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THE DEVIL’S CHILD
December 1989. The Ceausescu regime collapses. The world discovers the horrible extent of this dictatorship, especially images showing hundreds of thousands of children confined and abused in orphanages. Marion is one of these orphans, a devil’s child, as she calls herself. A French couple adopted h...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIII
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIII, who chose the site and built the first castle, was a musician and a good dancer in the Court Ballets. He favored the development of royal m...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIV
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIV established the Comedy-Ballet then the lyric tragedy and the academies. He gave an unequaled scope to sacred music and brought theater to the hear...
The Vaujours Kamikazes, Nuclear Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Opened in 1955 on the initiative of General de Gaulle, the Centre d’Etudes Atomiques de Vaujours (Vaujours Atomic Studies Centre) actively contributed to the creation of the French atomic bomb. In 1997, Jacques Chirac closed this site, located just 15 kilometers from Paris.
Now abandoned, the sit...
The wings of the Loire river
This is one of the most sensational duck hunts, taking place on one of the finest and noblest rivers of France and an exceptional World Heritage site, the Loire. Portraits of the hunters allow us to discover this wild river between Orleans and Tours. We accompany them as they hunt waterfowl, through...
Thierry Duvaldestin, itinerary of a self-made man
With a score of Group 1 wins to his name, including two Prix d’Amérique, and a reputation as a meticulous and highly successful trainer, Thierry Duvaldestin’s public image is well known. Our goal is to reveal the private man behind the professional.
Those who call him dour, taciturn and focused sole...
U Cignale, the boar of Corsica
We set off to discover the intricacies of hunting the Corsican wild boar, Sus scrofa meridionalis. The “Ile de Beauté” is a region in which the most deep-rooted hunting traditions are still resisting modernity. Several hunting techniques are used in Corsica, with a preference for hides and beaters, ...
WELCOME TO ANGKAR
This documentary film tells the saga of Thell, a 28-year-old Cambodian, snatched from her home by the Khmer Rouge, and a survivor of the Cambodian genocide (1975-1979).
The director uses the camera and a pencil to redraw these fragments of history, resurrecting them to recount the horrors endured a...
Within the Belly of the Great Organ of Notre-Dame
Olivier Latry, resident organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, takes us on a journey through the machinery of the Great Organ against a backdrop of history and the incredible events to which the instrument has been both a witness and protagonist.
The life of a titulaire des Grandes Orgues is ...
Jacques Perrin’s Cinema
A cinematic tribute to the incredible actor, director and producer (Z, directed by Costa Gavras, Microcosmos, Himalaya, Winged Migration...) Jacques Perrin.
This is the story of an adventurer of the cinema, but also a free man with convictions. The entertainer Jacques Perrin is driven by a constant ...
