Most Popular Louis Hochet Trailers
Total trailers found: 43
Provisional Liberty Trailer (1958)
16 May 1958
Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.
Houla-Houla Trailer (1959)
07 January 1959
Fernand Martin, a schoolteacher in Nogent-le-Roi, is in love with Jacqueline, a postal worker and the older sister of one of his pupils.
Gestures and Fragments Trailer (1983)
22 February 1983
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
Michael Strogoff Trailer (1956)
14 December 1956
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
Happiness Trailer (1965)
10 February 1965
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Fortune carrée Trailer (1955)
16 March 1955
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his former enemies against the Amiris.
La Liberté en croupe Trailer (1970)
30 October 1970
Paris, in the spring of 1968. Albin Cérès, 23, the son of a bourgeois couple on the verge of breakdown, seeks happiness in life.
The Diabolical Dr. Z Trailer (1966)
01 August 1966
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
There Once Was a Cop Trailer (1972)
11 February 1972
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss.
The Brain Trailer (1969)
07 March 1969
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles.
Death of a Killer Trailer (1964)
01 April 1964
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration.
Hommage à Vernon Trailer (1988)
08 June 1988
Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".
Road to Salina Trailer (1970)
09 November 1970
Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Mexico. He stops at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago.
A Slightly Pregnant Man Trailer (1973)
20 September 1973
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant.
In the Heart of the Thunderstorm Trailer (1948)
30 April 1948
This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder, focuses on the French Resistance, especially the heroic but disastrous battle of the Vercors plateau in July 1944, where German troops mercilessly slaughtered the Maquis and the inhabitants.
Midnight... Quai de Bercy Trailer (1953)
21 May 1953
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation.
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's Trailer (1953)
14 August 1953
Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers.
Let's Not Get Angry Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan.
Attack of the Robots Trailer (1966)
27 April 1966
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses.
Class Relations Trailer (1984)
21 February 1984
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
From the Clouds to the Resistance Trailer (1979)
07 November 1979
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology.
Othon Trailer (1971)
13 January 1971
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories.
Marked Eyes Trailer (1964)
02 September 1964
A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband.
Sorrel Flower Trailer (1967)
22 September 1967
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy.
Civil Wars in France Trailer (1978)
15 March 1978
Three episodes from the history of socialism: Babeuf, whose virulent discourse is a radical assessment of the bourgeois revolution of 1789 (Vincent Nordon episode); the legend of Napoleon I, or the formation of the state as it still dominates today (François Barat episode); and the carnage of the Paris Commune, which official history strives to repress and forget (Joël Farges episode).
Troubleshooters Trailer (1971)
07 April 1971
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup.
Antigone Trailer (1992)
02 September 1992
A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.
Moses and Aaron Trailer (1975)
09 May 1975
A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and sin.
Too Early / Too Late Trailer (1982)
17 February 1982
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980.
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.
Sicily! Trailer (1999)
19 May 1999
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet Trailer (1990)
04 April 1990
A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet.
Lothringen! Trailer (1994)
10 August 1994
About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach Trailer (1968)
03 February 1968
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice Trailer (1977)
07 December 1977
A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own.
En rachâchant Trailer (1982)
13 November 1982
The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.
Je suis un mouchard Trailer (1953)
17 April 1953
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henri.
Dark Journey Trailer (1962)
13 April 1962
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds out too late, and Madame Grosgeorge's love for him.
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.
Black Sin Trailer (1989)
01 May 1989
A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod des Empedokles’.
Le Roi des camelots Trailer (1951)
11 January 1951
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
From Today Until Tomorrow Trailer (1997)
29 September 1997
Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage.
