Long métrage

French

Zygfryd

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Zygfryd, a handsome, orphaned young circus acrobat with an introspective temperament, is under the protection of circus owner, Waldo, and his wife. A rich intellectual recluse, patron of the arts (and of young artists) stumbles into Zygfryd's heart-stopping act and offers him his friendship. He also opens up his cultural horizons and teaches him to consciously reflect on life. It all ends in tragedy, when the boy finds that the circus life is no longer enough and falls during his act.

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Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin or Les ailes du désir)

Title Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin or Les ailes du désir)
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Two angels, Daniel and Cassiel, come down from heaven in Berlin. They can mix with humans without being seen… They meet a former angel become human, who feels their presence and passes on his faith in humanity to them. One day Daniel finds his way in a circus and meets highwire artist Marion — a life-changing encounter, since he falls for her… A film about desire and about Berlin, a ‘historic place of truth’.

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Big Top Pee Wee

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Pee-Wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus is blown right into his backyard by a storm, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade)

Title Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade)
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In 1938, after his father Pr. Henry Jones goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, attractive adventurer Indiana Jones finds himself up against Adolf Hitler’s Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.

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La Voce della Luna

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Lunatic, day-dreamer Ivo Salvini hears the moon’s voice each time he looks down into a well. That night, the moon has something important to say to him. At least he thinks so, to the extent that he gets caught up in an uncanny journey across a strange country, a wonderland, where Ivo hopes to find beautiful Albina to give her back the stiletto he once stole from her…

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Jacquot de Nantes

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Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the 1930s. His father owns a garage, his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family live happily and like to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

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Die Dumme Augustine

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Day in and day out, stupid Augustine has to run the tiring household. She dreams of performing in the circus once, just like her husband, the stupid August. One day her husband has to go to the dentist and the ringmaster needs a replacement as soon as possible. Augustine takes her chance and jumps in. Can stupid Augustine make the audience laugh just like stupid August?

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Mazeppa

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Mazeppa is the history of a passion. The exclusive passion which attaches two men to horses. One wears himself out wanting to paint them in movement, it is Théodore Géricault, famous artist of the XIXth century. The other one is proud of dominating them completely, it is Franconi, the rider who manages an itinerant troop of riders and who we call “master”. What gathers these two men is the master’s will to teach Géricault what a horse really is, and Géricault’s yearning to learn.

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