Louis Hochet Movies

  • 1959
    Houla-Houla

    Houla-Houla

    Houla-Houla

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    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. He asks for...

    Houla-Houla
  • 1979
    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

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    'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...

    From the Clouds to the Resistance
  • 1958
    Provisional Liberty

    Provisional Liberty

    Provisional Liberty

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    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...

    Provisional Liberty
  • 1983
    Gestures and Fragments

    Gestures and Fragments

    Gestures and Fragments

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    "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...

    Gestures and Fragments
  • 1997
    From Today Until Tomorrow

    From Today Until Tomorrow

    From Today Until Tomorrow

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    Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...

    From Today Until Tomorrow
  • 1988
    Hommage à Vernon

    Hommage à Vernon

    Hommage à Vernon

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    Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".

    Hommage à Vernon
  • 1982
    En rachâchant

    En rachâchant

    En rachâchant

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    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.

    En rachâchant
  • 1953
    Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

    Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

    Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

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    Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this...

    Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
  • 1978
    Civil Wars in France

    Civil Wars in France

    Civil Wars in France

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    Civil Wars in France
  • 1994
    Lothringen!

    Lothringen!

    Lothringen!

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    About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

    Lothringen!
  • 1953
    Midnight... Quai de Bercy

    Midnight... Quai de Bercy

    Midnight... Quai de Bercy

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    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...

    Midnight... Quai de Bercy
  • 1962
    Dark Journey

    Dark Journey

    Dark Journey

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    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...

    Dark Journey
  • 1951
    Le Roi des camelots

    Le Roi des camelots

    Le Roi des camelots

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    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,...

    Le Roi des camelots
  • 1987
    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

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    Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

    The Death of Empedocles
  • 1977
    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

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    A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
  • 2010
    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

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    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...

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
  • 1948
    In the Heart of the Thunderstorm

    In the Heart of the Thunderstorm

    In the Heart of the Thunderstorm

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    This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder, focuses on the French Resistance, especially...

    In the Heart of the Thunderstorm
  • 1990
    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    6.41990HD

    A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
  • 1989
    Black Sin

    Black Sin

    Black Sin

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    A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

    Black Sin
  • 1970
    La Liberté en croupe

    La Liberté en croupe

    La Liberté en croupe

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    Paris, in the spring of 1968. Albin Cérès, 23, the son of a bourgeois couple on the verge of breakdown, seeks happiness in life....

    La Liberté en croupe