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- Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
- Desperate to escape the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a smuggler ship to France. This is the beginning of his odyssey across Western Europe to Paris, where miraculous promises, new friends, and dangers await him at every turn.
- The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- Teacher in the most prestigious high school in the country, François enjoys the life he's always known in Paris. Forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits.
- Hand in Hand is about a French lady who stay under a spell with a boy, a very young boy, both search for answers to the question but nothings seems logic, just magic.
- A touching politically incorrect comedy and a triumph of happiness over human mediocrity. Starring Pierre RICHARD, Sylvie TESTUD and Remy GIRARD.
- An interview of Violette Verdy and several masterclasses given by the retired prima ballerina, who was once revealed to the world by the great choreographer Roland Petit, she was to become the star dancer of the American City Ballet., under the direction of George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins to whom she inspired major ballets.. In "Violet and Mr. B"., the voluble and ebullient sixty-eight year old dancer is seen (and heard) coaching new stars such as Elisabeth Platel, Isabelle Guérin, Elisabeth Maurin or Lucia Lacarra.
- Gracile and light as a bird, an apparition, dressed in diaphanous white veils, appears on the rooftops of the Opéra Garnier, with a white dove as her companion. A voice calls her to the stage. Another voice, that of Violette Verdy, a dance teacher, addresses her with the admiration of the one whose expectations have been met. This is how we spectators learn that the floating creature is none other than Monique Loudières, one of the Etoile dancers of the Paris Opera, and Violette's former pupil. The ghost then takes flesh, but only to some extent such is the way Monique Loudières defies gravity. From then on she will be seen rehearsing great roles in scenes from famous ballets with partners of the stature of Patrick Dupond and Manuel Legris, either under the benevolent guidance of great elders who pass on their knowledge (Yvette Chauviré, Violette Verdy) or of international masters of contemporary choreography (Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian...) Attentive, concentrated, in love with perfection, we see her integrate the gestures, positions and movements they indicate only to replicate them in the moment in the inspired way that make her their ideal interpreter. In the end, the ballerina and the dove become unsubstantial again and vanish in the realm of the stars where they belong.
- Once upon a time there was a little girl named Nina. Born in Crimea, she and her mother left the country for France. She was only three when they settled down in the town of Meudon. There, Nina's mum became a dance teacher and the little girl soon became a little figure - dancer. After taking classes with famous names of Russian dance mistresses (Trefilova, Preobrajenja, Egorova) she became a dancer in a troupe. In 1946 a good fairy named Roland Petit chose her to be the star of Henri Sauguet's ballet « Les Forains ». Three years later the miracle continued for the little refugee from Meudon, the immense choreographer Serge Lifar called upon her to replace the star dancer of the Paris Opera, Yvette Chauviré. She was now a prima ballerina. Combining her high technical level with a taste for lyricism, mysticism and expressiveness, she furthered her career in the troupe of the Marquis de Cuevas. Until in the mid-1960s, she considered time was ripe for retirement - and for transmission. Dominique Delouche's camera shows her in 1995, at the age of 74, at the Opéra de Paris transmitting to young dancers all the subtleties of her art, particularly the choreographies she inspired in Lifar and other great masters. We also follow her on a trip to her native Russia, to Saint Petersburg, where she is honored at the Russian Ballet Academy, and to Gurzuf, the Crimean town on the Black Sea where she was born. Throughout the film, photos, archive footage and film extracts (including two by Delouche) are interspersed between the sequences devoted to the present, movingly linking a particularly successful life story, a winning mixture of exceptional personal talent and favorable conditions.
- Documentary about the great star dancer Serge Peretti, later to become a famed dance teacher at the Opera de Paris.
- A documentary about prima ballerina Nina Vyroubova. She is seen rehearsing at the Paris Opera under the direction of choreographer Serge Lifar and dancing master Yves Brieux with dancers such as Attilio Labis, Youli Algaroff and Serge Golovine.
- The great Alicia Markova talks with Dominique Delouche about her life and her roles with the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev. Between 1925 and 1928, Karsavina, Pavlova, Sergueev, Egorova, Fokine and Spessivtseva, all brilliant dancers with the Ballets Russes, left a lasting mark on the young British ballerina's artistic career. After the death of the famous Russian impresario in 1929, Alicia Markova returned to England, where she worked alongside the famous choreographer Frederick Ashton, and in 1950 founded what was to become the English National Ballet. In the company of the Stars and Dancers of the Paris Opera, Alicia Markova delivers her memoirs, those of an exceptional dancer who worked with the greatest names in dance throughout the 20th century.
- Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financier, who has business there (the country is rich in oil), wouldn't mind a little political stability. So why not restore the ancient royal family to the throne? But is Prince Sacha up to his role ? And will Marianne make a suitable princess?
- Foyer de la danse de l'Opéra de Paris, 1981. Rosella Hightower, who sparkled in the role of Aurora in Tchaikovsky's' Sleeping Beauty', teaches the role to Elisabeth Platel, the Opera's young principal dancer. The dance director transmits joy and love with scrupulous precision, all the better expressed as the ancestral codes are transcended.
- A portrait of the famous dancer-choreographer Serge Lifar.
- Filmed is in four times at the Paris Opera while Nina Vyroubova and Attilio Labis were rehearsing "Giselle", Adolphe Adam's ballet.
- This feature, expanded from an earlier short subject, shows us the perennial tradition of classical dance and it's transmission through the stage performances and rehearsals of several famous practitioners.
- Drawing on highlights from his previous films on Alicia Markova, Nina Vyroubova and Violette Verdy, France's leading chronicler of the process of ballet coaching adds new footage of Balanchine muse Ghislaine Thesmar.
- Natalie, Louis and her uncle Aaron Jastrow find themselves in Paris having been transferred there from the prisoner exchange camp in Baden Baden courtesy of Aaron's former student, the German diplomat Werner Beck. He thwarts their attempt to return to the exchange camp and they find themselves transferred to the so-called "paradise camp" of Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia. Byron Henry is at sea in the Pacific with his friend "Lady" Aster in command. He also learns of wife Natalie's transfer to a new camp but doesn't get much more than that from the State Department. They have a very successful first mission but Lady's orders to shoot survivors off a Japanese troop ship don't sit well with everyone. Pamela Tudsbury makes her way to Moscow and has a brief meeting with Pug Henry. Berel Jastrow manages to escape from the concentration camp.