Jorge Semprún
1923 - 2011Le fond de l'air est rouge
Chris Marker
Laurence Guvillier, Davos Hanich
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
A Grin Without a Cat
On vous parle de Prague : Le Deuxième Procès d'Artur London
Chris Marker
Yves Montand, Simone Signoret
Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
La guerre est finie
Alain Resnais
Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
The War Is Over