William Lubtchansky

The Last of the Unjust (2013)

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last p ...

The Karski Report (2010)

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. ...

Frontier of Dawn (2009)

A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. ...

Itinerary of Jean Bricard (2008)

The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema's greatest artists. ...

The Duchess of Langeais (2007)

At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she was the Duchess of Langeais, and he her most persistent suitor. ...

Gardens in Autumn (2006)

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known an ...

Regular Lovers (2005)

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with hi ...

Genesis (2004)

An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete. ...

A Visit to the Louvre (2004)

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne. ...

The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)

Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn't know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had falle ...

Small Cuts (2003)

Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political beliefs battered by the wind of history, Bruno seems to have lost his bearings. ...

Monday Morning (2002)

Vincent lives in a village, along the Rhône. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father. ...

Il viandante (2001)

An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also note the extra use of close-up (for them) on the old woman. ...

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)

After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he's meeting with the intriguing Dominique ...

Everything's Fine, We're Leaving (2000)

Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them and their now-deceased mother. Each responds differently to his return according to how he ...

Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999)

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his ...

À mort la mort ! (1999)

The idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after attending several funerals of friends in the fall of 1996, where the '68 generation, now in influential positions in media or politics, kept meeting each other. It se ...

A Visitor from the Living (1999)

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp. ...

Sicily! (1999)

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener. ...

Hard Off (1999)

This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perfo ...

Secret Defense (1998)

After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner. ...

From Today Until Tomorrow (1997)

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man while he has cast an appraising eye toward one of her acquaint ...

The Good Life (1996)

Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protection, affection and comfort crumbles. From then on, he will learn the taste of loneliness, sadness and that ...

Brigands, Chapter VII (1996)

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings. ...

Le Cri de la soie (1996)

An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy ...

The New World (1995)

A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed. ...

Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin (1994)

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer, weighed down by the hardships of life. Germaine, daughter of a wellknown figure, is one of the most brill ...

Joan the Maid II: The Prisons (1994)

Jeanne has succeeded in lifting the siege of Orléans and Charles has been crowned King of France. However, she is injured in an attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. Captured by the enemy and put on trial, she finds both her life and the ...

Joan the Maid I: The Battles (1994)

Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to plead with Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield. ...

Joan the Maid (1994)

Part 1: Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Joan of Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield. Part 2: Joan has succeeded in l ...

C'est de l'art (1993)

This series, assembled in a film, presents the singular view of contemporary artists on major works of art history. The words of these free spirits make each work see each work as a dynamic form, in the process of becoming, crossed by multiple energies. Th ...

Poor George (1993)

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there. ...

Chasing Butterflies (1992)

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen. ...

Antigone (1992)

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him. ...

La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento (1992)

More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view ...

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago st ...

Walking a Tightrope (1991)

A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth. ...

The Little Gangster (1990)

Marc, a troubled teenager, is bored in his native, depressing city of Sete. One day, a simple phone call makes him aware of the existence of Stephanie, a sister he has never met. Armed with a pistol his mother found, he goes out to find her. He steals mone ...

Every Other Weekend (1990)

Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with her, a ...

Nouvelle Vague (1990)

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, bu ...

The Mahabharata (1990)

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a se ...

Black Sin (1989)

A companion piece to the earlier film 'The Death of Empedocles', 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin's play 'Der Tod des Empedokles'. ...

The House of Jade (1988)

During a ceremony in an orthodox church in Paris, a 40-year-old writer and journalist is seduced by a young man, whom with she will live an extraordinary story of love and passion that will drive them to madness. ...

Hommage à Vernon (1988)

Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles". ...

Frequent Death (1988)

Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child. ...

The Seasons of Pleasure (1988)

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler. ...

Comédie ! (1987)

In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because she knows that many women have been at this house with him. She herself is not as experienced as he and secr ...

Agent trouble (1987)

Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets i ...

Où que tu sois (1987)

Emmanuel, 37, lives in Paris with his wife, Irene, and his daughter Anne, 14 years old. He accidentally discovers that Irene is receiving mail in the remaining mail. She refuses to follow Emmanuel to Italy where he has to write a biography of Filippo Lippi ...

The Prude (1986)

Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses ...

Havre (1986)

Lili lives near the port of Le Havre. She is mourning her lover Pablo, who died leaving unfinished a video game he was developing for a Japanese trust. A young boy decides to take over the project, while Lili, guided by a mysterious figure called Doctor Di ...

I Love You (1986)

Michel is a bored, lonely, cheap-thrills-seeker. Everything changes when he finds an unusual bobble head doll in the shape of a pretty woman that can say "I love you" and falls in love with it to the point of obsession. ...

Electra (1986)

Mise-en-scène of the classic tragedy of Sofocles, carried out by Antoine Vitez in the National Theatre of Chaillot ...

The Temptation of Isabelle (1985)

Bruno devises a mean to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle. Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain in the past, Bruno invites Alain to a surprise birthday party for her at a hotel -- what better way to judge her feelings than to get them together ...

Shoah (1985)

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, a ...

After Darkness (1985)

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be ...

Next Summer (1985)

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship ...

Love on the Ground (1984)

A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part. ...

Frankenstein 90 (1984)

French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger for l'am ...

Class Relations (1984)

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control. ...

Cap Canaille (1983)

Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in the underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, ...

L'Indiscrétion (1982)

An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their killers description resembles the man. ...

Boulevard des assassins (1982)

After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents. ...

Le Pont du Nord (1982)

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotte ...

Short Memory (1982)

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is r ...

Too Early / Too Late (1982)

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt's history of peasant struggle a ...

The Red Shade (1981)

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Kn ...

Merry-Go-Round (1981)

New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery. ...

The Woman Next Door (1981)

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue. ...

The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmati ...

Snow (1981)

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients. ...

Paris s'en va (1981)

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested ...

Every Man for Himself (1980)

A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker. ...

First Voyage (1980)

When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father. ...

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children (1979)

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contem ...

How's It Going? (1978)

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France ...

Daguerréotypes (1978)

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker's home for more than 50 years. ...

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice (1977)

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitatio ...

Last Exit Before Roissy (1977)

Noroît (1976)

After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, s ...

Here and Elsewhere (1976)

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the mater ...

Duelle (Une Quarantaine) (1976)

Two enigmatic women separately arrive in Paris, both with a hidden but shared motive. As they navigate the city and their search progresses, various characters become entangled in a conflict, which increasingly comes to take a fantastical turn. These chara ...

Parlez-moi d'amour (1975)

Emerging from a lengthy dinner where his mother was exhibited without restraint for the favor of a man, Daniel returns alone, sickened. Without imagining the trap closes on him, he later agrees to have a drink with a neighbor he just help carry packages. S ...

Number Two (1975)

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is s ...

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan (1975)

A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill. ...

Violins at the Ball (1974)

In this WW II drama based on an autobiographical story by director Michel Drach, a Jewish boy and his family living in Nazi occupied France, attempt to escape the cruel invaders. Later the boy grows up to become a filmmaker obsessed with chronicling his ch ...

Israel, Why (1973)

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business of everyday living. ...

Défense de savoir (1973)

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth. ...

A Full Day's Work (1973)

A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death. ...

The Year 01 (1973)

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluct ...

It Only Happens to Others (1971)

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction. ...

The Savior (1971)

This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to c ...

Klann - grand guignol (1970)

An eccentric film director (Gabriel Cattand) conducts a search for a modern day Joan of Arc. His harridan wife (Ursula Kubler) hounds him constantly during the selection process. When he finally selects the perfect actress, she is driven to suicide before ...

A Film Like Any Other (1968)

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers' and students' protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration. ...

Elsa the Rose (1966)

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa's youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa. ...

The Creatures (1966)

A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book. ...

Under Your Hat (1965)

An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune. ...

Fragilité, ton nom est femme (1965)

Fjarst í eilífðar útsæ (1964)

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They Saw Inferno (2010)

A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project 'Inferno' was, as well as how those who were involved with it reacted to it during the shooting process. A riveting adjunct to the main feature, offering a glut of interviews wi ...

Nos yeux se sont ouverts (2010)

Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective. ...

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic origi ...

The Persistence of Vision (1993)

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet. ...