Le Parti du cinéma

Feb 1, 2021

★ 7.7

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Documentary

History

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LCP - Assemblée nationale

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Dominique Reymond

Self (archive footage)

Georges Marchais

Self (archive footage)

Jean Grandel

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Duclos

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Cachin

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Jean Renoir

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Self (archive footage)

Maurice Thorez

Self (archive footage)

Gérard Philipe

Self (archive footage)

Yves Montand

Self (archive footage)

Simone Signoret

Communist, resistance fighter, deportee, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier is one of the great heroines of the 20th century. Nicknamed Maïco, she became a photojournalist and embraced the class struggle at the same time as she fell in love with one of the figures of the Popular Front, Paul Vaillant-Couturier. During World War II, she joined the Resistance and later gave decisive testimony at Nuremberg.

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10.0

Battle Front in Britain

Jun 1, 1918

From growing potatoes in Green Park, London, to transforming rabbit crates into seed boxes – just a couple of the many ingenious ways of supporting the war effort which are covered in this film from the Ministry of Information.

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4.2

Gestern und heute

Apr 7, 1938

Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor with the Germany of "today" and how much better it is.

7.2

Promise at Dawn

Dec 20, 2017

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

8.0

Conversation avec Claude Lelouch

Jan 27, 2024

51 films to date, a unique body of work whose common thread is the search for love: this is the cinema of Claude Lelouch. As a Jewish child hunted during the war, the filmmaker offers his very personal vision of betrayal, scoundrels, good people, travel, parent-child relationships, and the ghosts of his deceased friends whom he will always love.

4.4

Race d'Ep!

Oct 24, 1979

"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz. The film traces the history of modern homosexuality through the twentieth century, from early sexology and the nudes of Baron von Gloeden to gay liberation and cruising on the streets of Paris. Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault on the history of sexuality and reflecting the revolutionary queer activism of its day, "Race d’Ep!" is a shockingly frank, sex-filled experimental documentary about gay culture emerging from the shadows.

6.4

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Oct 27, 1999

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.

8.0

Bernard Blier, façon puzzle

Dec 23, 2020

In a career spanning more than half a century, Bernard Blier has shot more than 180 films. He alone represents a history of French cinema without having spent his time cultivating its legend. He crossed his century as an actor with the modesty of a craftsman. He believed in learning, know-how and transmission. He considered himself, like the butcher or the cabinetmaker, as a man useful to his fellow men. Bernard Blier found in Louis Jouvet, who was his teacher at the Conservatory, a master at playing, a mentor and even a spiritual father. Jouvet taught Blier the love of acting, theater and Molière. And if he knew how to take hold of Michel Audiard's best tirades like no one else, notably those of the "Tontons Flingueurs", it is to this apprenticeship that he owes it.

6.1

Charlotte Gray

Dec 28, 2001

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

0.0

Art: By Any Means Necessary

May 9, 2024

Follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open. Against the backdrop of political strife, Haitian and Guadeloupean artists grapple with the concept of freedom in their battle to preserve their spaces.

9.5

Numéro zéro

Jan 1, 1971

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production — he is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the clapboard at the head and tail of the reels, and even takes a phone call. Robert, who was seventy-one, speaks rapidly and tells the story of her life, starting from her early childhood in villages in the Bordeaux region of France. A shorter version of the film ("Odette Robert") was edited in 1980 to be broadcast on television on TF1. The complete film only gained exposure in 2002, when it was salvaged by Boris Eustache, Thierry Lounas, João Bénard da Costa, Jean-Marie Straub, and Pedro Costa.

4.0

Children playing with skipping rope

Jan 1, 1896

A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of the other children refuses and eventually runs away. Another child is fascinated by the camera and stares at it throughout, even when encouraged by one of the men to play. IN the background, traffic passes and pedestrians stroll past behind a railing on an upper level. The children wear sunhats, indicating the weather is very sunny.

6.6

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, l’homme qui avançait à contre-courant

Jan 30, 2017

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8.4

The Occupation of the American Mind

Jan 19, 2016

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world—except the United States. This documentary takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.

6.6

When Trumpets Fade

Jun 27, 1998

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.

6.0

What Is a Good Tax?

May 8, 2019

Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rascal to tax revolt, the movement of yellow vests in France has returned to the center of attention the question of consent to tax. How to explain a different resistance to taxes from one country to another without tax pressure being an explanation? Is there a "good" tax? Jean Quatremer takes us on a journey to the tax center across Europe, to meet those who pay it, those who decide it, those who study it... or those who allow to avoid it.

4.6

Railway Station

Jan 1, 1980

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

7.0

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

Apr 2, 2018

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

7.1

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Jun 30, 1896

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

7.1

Land Without Bread

Dec 1, 1933

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Dominique Reymond

Self (archive footage)

Georges Marchais

Self (archive footage)

Jean Grandel

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Duclos

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Cachin

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Jean Renoir

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Self (archive footage)

Maurice Thorez

Self (archive footage)

Gérard Philipe

Self (archive footage)

Yves Montand

Self (archive footage)

Le Parti du cinéma

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

Le Parti du cinéma Trailers

Cast

Dominique Reymond

Georges Marchais

Jean Grandel

Jacques Duclos

Adolf Hitler

Marcel Cachin

Jean Renoir

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Maurice Thorez

Gérard Philipe

Yves Montand

Simone Signoret

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Bernard Blier, façon puzzle

Charlotte Gray

Art: By Any Means Necessary

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Children playing with skipping rope

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, l’homme qui avançait à contre-courant

The Occupation of the American Mind

When Trumpets Fade

What Is a Good Tax?

Railway Station

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Land Without Bread

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Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée

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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Bernard Blier, façon puzzle

Charlotte Gray

Art: By Any Means Necessary

Numéro zéro

Children playing with skipping rope

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, l’homme qui avançait à contre-courant

The Occupation of the American Mind

When Trumpets Fade

What Is a Good Tax?

Railway Station

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Land Without Bread

Cast

Dominique Reymond

Georges Marchais

Jean Grandel

Jacques Duclos

Adolf Hitler

Marcel Cachin

Jean Renoir

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Maurice Thorez

Gérard Philipe

Yves Montand

Simone Signoret