Movies: Roger Leenhardt

A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?...

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel....

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover....

Animated short about the tale of the Magic Flute...

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Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of L...

In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad....

A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold....

Short documentary film on and around the color red...

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A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s....

Traces the development of the animated cartoon from a 19th-century children's toy to modern Disney cartoons. Includes a complete animated show as it would have looked in the 1890s....

A short historical documentary by Roger Leenhardt and Jean Pierre Vivet that chronicles the eleventh-century invasion of England by William the Conqueror, using images of the Bayeux Tapestry to illustrate the story. As described by Erik Barnouw ("Doc...

This documentary short shows how a dry, semi-barren piece of desert that had been the object of conflict between two neighboring tribes in Morocco can be transformed by modern farming methods--including irrigation canals, mechanized forms of planting...

The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera....

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose rev...