As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.
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The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
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A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world t...
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Sir Elton John looks back on his life and the astonishing early days of his 50-year career in this e...
An account of the life and work of the charismatic Spanish writer Terenci Moix (1942-2003).
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Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (194...
An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: hi...
Gaga has travelled through time with her ever changing sound, reinventing herself for every album, a...
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a myster...
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: hi...
A lonely house-wife’s plan to end it all takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radi...
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...