Sygma Television

Even the most devout Star Wars fan might not know that filmmaker and journalist Michel Parbot was once given unprecedented access to the set, stars, and filmmakers behind The Empire Strikes Back. The resulting work, The Making of The Empire Strikes Back, has apparently never been commercially released. Most of the footage has been lost, but 15 minutes has circulated online in recent years. Now, the 1 hour cut of Michel Parbot’s lost documentary has been found.

Dina Vierny is a renowned French gallerist, art historian and the muse of sculptor Aristide Maillol. In the French art community, Dina Vierny was highly regarded for her refined taste and broad-mindedness. During the war years she participated in the Resistance movement. In the 1970s, it was she who exposed Soviet conceptual artists to the West. In the movie take part: Aristide Maillol's nephew Yvon Berta-Maillol, artists Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Vladimir Yankilevsky. Dina Vierny herself talks about her life.