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(0)Vincent Perez
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Français
Description
Raúl Ruiz’s most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement, TIME REGAINED distills all of Marcel Proust’s iconic "In Search of Lost Time" into a single epic feature. The film opens in 1922, as Proust is on his deathbed pouring through old photographs that summon the events of his life. Gradually, we watch as his own experiences merge with his own literary creations. In Ruiz’s deft cinematic hands the film...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The last years of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his...
6) Queen Margot
Publisher
distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope for escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her!
Author
Language
Français
Description
Inspired to make a movie about his life, actor Tomer Sisley became fascinated with the long-forgotten story of Perez, who rose to great fame in 1931 as the youngest world champion in boxing history-only to be deported to Auschwitz, where he was forced to box in the concentration camp for the amusement of the guards. This compelling documentary follows Sisley on his quest to learn more about Perez's harrowing and emotional story.
Author
Language
Français
Description
HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS traces Canadian history in a single location at the foot of Mount Royal, where Percival Molson Stadium now stands. From an Iroquoian massacre in 1267 to a college football game, from Jacques Cartier's first voyage in 1535 to the purple fever epidemic in 1687, from the Patriots' uprising in 1837 to brain surgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1944, five Montreal stories are revealed by an archaeologist's excavation....
10) Frankenstein
Author
Language
English
Description
A New Orleans detective investigating a series of horrific murders, and is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.
Author
Series
Cesare Mori volume 2
Language
Italiano
Description
Because of his triumph in his first round with the Mafia, Cesare Mori is summoned by Mussolini in 1925 to go to Palermo and do it again.
Author
Series
Cesare Mori volume 1
Language
Italiano
Description
Summoned to the Madonie region of Sicily because of his reputation, Cesare Mori ("The Iron Prefect") makes historic inroads against the Mafia.
14) Talk of Angels
Author
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young Irish governess, Mary, leaves home and travels to Spain to work in the residence of a wealthy family strained by conflicting political allegiances. Swept away by her new surroundings while being threatened by the turmoil of the times, Mary eventually finds a different kind of danger: the inescapable attraction she shares with the fiery, handsome and married son of her employer.
Author
Language
Français
Description
Based on the 1976 true story of the Somalian rebel hijacking of a school bus of 21 French children. When diplomacy comes at a stall and time is running out, French captain André Gerval and his team of elite snipers carry out an attack to get the children and their teacher out safely.