Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is “devoted to the anniversary of the Paris commune, mixing historical footage with images of present-day Paris.”

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

After serving as an embassy secretary in London at the end of 1787, a position he didn't exactly enj...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempte...

The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzer...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, h...

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...

The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacob...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...