NOVEMBER 2ND – THE CONCERT (12A) – FRANCE 2009

Many years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) was fired as conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a janitor, he learns that members of the orchestra have been invited to perform in Paris. Andrei gathers his former players and plans to substitute them for the current ones, and he hopes that…

19th October Manon des Sources Jean de Florette 2ème Partie (1986) – Switzerland/France/Italy

Period drama (continuing the story told in ‘Jean de Florette’, 1986). The hunchback’s daughter, Manon, is now grown up and a shepherdess, and Ugolin falls hopelessly in love with her. When she learns of the reason for her father’s death, she determines to take revenge on the villagers who were behind it. Little do the…

October 5th – Jean de Florette (1986) – Switzerland/France/Italy

Period drama. In the hills of Provence, village elder César Soubeyran and his nephew Ugolin covet a piece of land which seems to be the perfect site to grow their carnations as it has an underground spring beneath it. However, the rightful heir appears in Jean, who has moved here from the city with his…