Jean-Paul Toraille Trailers
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Most Popular Jean-Paul Toraille Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
Nightcap Trailer (2000)
25 October 2000
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday.
Hard Off Trailer (1999)
17 May 1999
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years.
The Red Shade Trailer (1981)
28 October 1981
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain.
The Associate Trailer (1979)
22 August 1979
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him.
May Fools Trailer (1990)
24 January 1990
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Au Revoir les Enfants Trailer (1987)
07 October 1987
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France.
Rendez-vous Trailer (1985)
15 May 1985
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.
Full Moon in Paris Trailer (1984)
29 August 1984
Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.
Twister Trailer (1989)
30 June 1989
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon.
The Plough Trailer (2023)
08 March 2023
Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father.
Kippur Trailer (2000)
07 September 2000
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights.
The Return of the Prodigal Son Trailer (2003)
23 April 2003
In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins.
O somma luce Trailer (2011)
05 January 2011
In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Incantati Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film Umiliati — fragment as mini-manifesto.
The Death of Empedocles Trailer (1987)
14 October 1987
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Artemide’s Knee Trailer (2008)
07 June 2008
Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature.
Dolando Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
"At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing several stanzas from Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.
Workers, Peasants Trailer (2001)
30 September 2001
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity.
Humiliated Trailer (2003)
24 March 2003
Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).
Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle Trailer (2010)
11 August 2010
In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles.
Roger Diamantis or Real Life Trailer (2005)
17 September 2005
Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show films that resembled him, and his years in the restoration business to achieve this… He recalls his early days, talks about the filmmakers who found their place with him, and his film “Si j'te cherche, j'me trouve”.
