Summary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Optimistic hobo Isa, with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working factory jobs and selling cards. After she loses a garment-factory job, her coworker Marie lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters, an apartment belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter. Isa goes through two tempestous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRESummary: Delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. Follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny. Shows the future conqueror and revealing him not as the evil brute, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MONSummary: Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town past a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIFSummary: One of the major works of German silent cinema, Murnau's class drama depicts the fall of the respected, aging, hotel doorman of a posh 1920s Berlin hotel, who is cruelly stripped of his position and reduced to a bathroom attendant, before his fortunes turn and he becomes a millionaire. The film was groundbreaking for its expressive, mobile camera work, which imparts information visually,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2001