France 2 cinéma (Firm)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Best selling comic book artist Joann Sfar delivers an inventive biography of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar and his many relationships including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin while employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that acts like a time...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A homeless father and street boxer struggling to support his son and a severely injured killer whale trainer's lives intersect and form an intensifying bond that fractures the considerable defensive armor each is accustomed to wearing.
6) Django
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A powerful biopic focusing on the life of legendary Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's...
8) Frantz
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged)
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit.
10) Paris
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
11) Carmen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young dancer is forced to flee the Mexican desert when her mother is murdered. She joins up with a soldier recovering from PTSD and the two begin a passionate love affair in this evocative drama.
12) Carnage
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
13) John Rabe
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre in China by courageously negotiating a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the Japanese Army. Drawing from John Rabe's 1937 diaries as source material, Florian Gallenberger has crafted a portrait of a man revered as a saint in China to this day and yet never rewarded for his courage during his lifetime. Based on true events.