Xavier Villetard

FBI contre Hollywood

Xavier Villetard

Kirk Douglas, Sylvia Jarrico

Based on information from FBI cases, this documentary investigates the dark years of American cinema and attempts to discover the mechanisms leading to one of the most diabolical periods in US history.

Oum Kalthoum, la voix du Caire

Xavier Villetard

Philippe Dormoy

Beat Generation

Xavier Villetard

Anasthasie Tudieshe, Simon Backès

Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat Generation movement.

Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède

Claude Ventura, Xavier Villetard

Richard Balducci, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.

André Malraux, l'épreuve du pouvoir

Xavier Villetard

Laurent Poitrenaux, Olivier Todd

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. Overwhelmed by the weight of power. The numerous exploits of André Malraux (1901-1976).

Chez Frida Kahlo

Xavier Villetard

A place of pleasure and pain, creation and separation, Frida Kahlo's home, known as "La Maison Bleue", was the scene of one of the most singular adventures of the 20th century. In the 1930s, while Europe was being torn apart, Frida Kahlo welcomed painters, actresses, writers, photographers and revolutionaries: from Diego Rivera, the great Mexican painter and Frida's fickle husband, to Leon Trotsky in exile, via André Breton, who dreamed of Mexico as the land of "real surrealism".

Eddy Mitchell

Xavier Villetard

Eddy Mitchell

Comment nous avons construit le métro de Moscou

Xavier Villetard

Arnaud Arbessier, Jochen Hägele

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the purges of 1937-38.