Roger Leenhardt

Le rouge (1967)

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

Trois portraits d'un oiseau qui n'existe pas (1963)

Midnight Meeting (1962)

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? ...

Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur (1957)

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 revolutio ...

Balzac (1951)

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 La Com ...

Metro (1950)

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

The Last Vacation (1948)

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

Love Around the House (1947)

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. ...

The Magic Flute (1946)

A minstrel, barred from entering a castle, is given a magic flute that can manipulate movement. ...

The Birth of Cinema (1946)

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. ...

Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up (1946)

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. ...

The Man Who Loved Women (1977)

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. ...

The Married Woman (1964)

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