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Overview of films

• Abel Gance, hier et demain

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  Nelly Kaplan | 28' | France | -

  Ode by a female film-maker to ‘the greatest visionary of the seventh art’.

• Abel Gance, the Charm of Dynamite

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  Kevin Brownlow | 50' | United Kingdom | -

  Portrait of Abel Gance focusing on his silent-film oeuvre.

• Allianza para el progreso

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  Julio Ludueña | 108' | Argentina | -

  Metaphorical and very political feature that ‘just as bad as we had hoped’, according to the maker, to escape the ‘corrupt conventions’ of Hollywood.

• Die Angst des Tormans beim Elfmeter

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  Wim Wenders | 100' | Germany | -

  By Wenders when he was still young and good. About a goalkeeper who goes crazy and commits a pointless murder.

• Bonaparte et la révolution

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  Abel Gance | 200' | France | -

  Not the complete reconstruction of Napoleon, but a version by the maker himself.

• Buraikan

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  104' | Japan | -

  Historic black comedy about acting playboy who rebels against the oppression of art.

• Les camisards

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  René Allio | 105' | France | -

  Unconventional Brechtian costume drama about Protestant guerrillas (Camisards) in the era of the Catholic potentate Louis XIV.

• Le Chagrin et la Pitié

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  Marcel Ophüls | 270' | France | -

  Notorious and classic documentary about collaboration with the Nazis by the French Vichy regime. The film made Ophuls famous, hated and feared.

• La cicatrice intérieure

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  Philippe Garrel | 60' | France | -

  A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground).

• Coup pour coup

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  Marin Karmitz | 90' | France | -

  To make the film, Karmitz did not take on any actors, but more than one hundred working women with whom he conceived and made this…
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  The Cow

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  Dariush Mehrjui | 100' | Iran | -

  Groundbreaking, deeply moving Iranian New Wave film in which a farmer takes the place of his lost cow. Astounding camerawork.
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  Dyn Amo

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  Stephen Dwoskin | 120' | United Kingdom | -

  Experimental lechery. The camera as voyeur and four striptease dancers.