Samy Halfon

Most Popular Samy Halfon Trailers

Total trailers found: 15

Byzance Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television.

Night and Fog Trailer (1956)

22 May 1956

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The Royal Chase Trailer (1969)

26 December 1969

Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.

Hiroshima Mon Amour Trailer (1959)

10 June 1959

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave.

Pehlivan Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire, originating in the games the soldiers would play to entertain themselves in between battles.

Birds, Orphans and Fools Trailer (1969)

27 September 1969

In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.

The Man Who Lies Trailer (1968)

27 March 1968

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town.

Trans-Europ-Express Trailer (1966)

31 December 1966

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

Symphonie mécanique Trailer (1956)

01 January 1956

Eden and After Trailer (1970)

20 April 1970

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin.

Le voyageur Trailer (1956)

01 January 1956

Monkey's Teeth Trailer (1961)

01 October 1961

A slow and ugly fairy tale based on the drawings of inmates at a psychiatric clinic where LaLoux worked.

Bosphore Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only one that was shot in color.

Istanbul Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that Pialat is filming it.

Dead Times Trailer (1964)

01 December 1964

What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.