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Born in Argentina to a Russian Jewish family, Nelly Kaplan relocated to Paris at age seventeen, where she became an assistant to legendary director Abel Gance before directing her first feature, the caustic revenge comedy A Very Curious Girl. Transgressive, satirical, and surreal, Kaplan's films are defined by their proactive female protagonists.
Total trailers found: 23
03 September 1975
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves".
26 March 1984
This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance.
18 March 1955
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited.
17 August 1976
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting.
05 September 1979
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively.
10 April 1991
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide.
03 December 1969
Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
17 June 1960
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
22 April 1971
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too.
21 April 1958
A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded the American invention of Cinerama, and used three screens to present a drama of simultaneous images.
28 January 1991
A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers.
17 April 1993
Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence.
23 April 1994
In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child.
01 January 1962
Short film by Nelly Kaplan about the life and works of Rodolphe Bresdin
01 January 1964
A story of "La Pasta", a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival.
01 January 1966
A short film by Nelly Kaplan on Victor Hugo's drawings.
01 January 1967
On the 1967 huge Picasso exhibition in Paris, celebrating the 85 anniversary of the painter.
01 January 1963
The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.
26 October 1987
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sihol; when the latter’s late husband Pierre Arditi turns out to yet have surprises up his sleeve for all of them, Kaplan hones in on the women’s by-necessity connection.
01 January 1965
Documentary on erotic drawings by the painter André Masson.
01 March 1956
Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance's creation, Polyvision and Sonore Perspective, which used three screens to present a drama of simultaneous images.
02 January 1962
A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to these days an influential figure in the birth of modern art.
