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Documentary on Les Charlots, known as The Crazy Boys in the English-speaking world, a group of French musicians, singers, comedians and film actors who were popular in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.

Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, knew how to give him his letters of nobility on the big screen was Pierre Richard who interpreted seven times the characters of Perrin and Pignon. Two cult characters from the imagination of the famous director and screenwriter Francis Veber. For 15 years, the collaboration of the Pierre Richard-Francis Veber duo offered huge public and popular successes that have stood the test of time and entered the pantheon of the greatest French comedies.

Bertrand Dicale, Louis de Funès' biographer, traces the genesis of the film 'Joe: The Busybody' and the actor's reunion with director Jean Girault.

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial innovator from Paris to Hollywood. He inspired many of his peers and was also a mentor to some great filmmakers, including his son Jacques. Using previously unseen home movies, this film reveals the private man as well as the inspired artist whose career spanned four decades and two world wars.

"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity François Truffaut talks about here is love. Romantic or filial love. Love as an educational, political and social action. The love imagined by a filmmaker who wanted to show that love is within everyone's reach ! To gather Truffaut's formulas in a documentary rekindles how Truffaut communicates the essential.

Illustrated by numerous archives and unpublished testimonies in France, this documentary traces the progress of the aborted edition of the Cannes Festival in 1968.

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

Interviews with crew and cast from "That Man from Rio".

This documentary on the making of JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING features director Claude Berri; actors Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu; assistant director Xavier Castano; editors Hervé de Luze and Arlette Langmann; executive producer Pierre Grunstein; and composer Jean-Claude Petit.

Stephane Lerouge interviewed about the music of George Delerue and his work on Philippe de Broca's movies.