Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Back to Normandy
Overview
A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.
Director and cast
More films
Vivement Truffaut (1985)
Documentary · N/A
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, liter...
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Director
- Claude de Givray
- Cast
- Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve
White Man with Black Bread (2007)
Documentary · N/A
Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy ...
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Director
- Jonas Grosch
- Cast
- Christof Wackernagel, Madou Coulibaly
Cirque du Soleil: Quidam (1999)
Documentary · Music · N/A
A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her world and she finds herself in the universe of QUIDAM, where she is joined by a playful companion, as well as another mysterious character who attempts to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling and the terrifying.
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Cast
- Audrey Brisson-Jutras, John Gilkey, Matthew Baker
The Light of Dawn: The Normandy Landings (2014)
Documentary · War
The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and Roosevelt first proposed the operation and how preparations started—finishing with the key events of D-Day and the far-reaching effects of its outcome.
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Director
- Jean-Christophe Rosé
- Cast
- Samuel Le Bihan
Mont Saint-Michel: The Enigmatic Labyrinth (2017)
Documentary · History · Not Rated
Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this architectural wonder built?
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Director
- Marc Jampolsky
- Cast
- Cédric Zimmerlin
Snow (1963)
Documentary · N/A
Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are ...
- Runtime
- 8m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Rail (1967)
Documentary · N/A
"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss. There was a facing-up to the increasing need for a big modernisation drive. Full and speedy electrification, or the wider promotion of diesel-power on remaining lines, became a matter of to...
- Runtime
- 14m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Locomotion (1975)
Documentary · N/A
Collage film about the history of trains set to music.
- Runtime
- 16m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Shell Spirit (1963)
N/A
Directed by Geoffrey Jones.
- Runtime
- 2m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Comments
Talk about the film with other members