Gérard Desarthe Movies

We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de...

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor...

The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes.

A woman wants to film a prisoner being tortured.

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of...

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist...

Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large...

The story of a small village in Touraine between 1788 and 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, with its lord, its wealthy peasants, and its...