Catalogue des films de « Jean-Marie Pelt »


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10 films
Pas de photo disponible pour le moment L'Aventure des plantes
Auteur | France | 2004

This series helps us to discover the variety and inventiveness of plant life trying to win nature's ongoing struggle for survival. Using time-lapse photography techniques to let us witness extremely slow processes, this series is a welcome...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment L'Arbre de vie, l'arbre de mort
Auteur | France | 1994

The yew is in every way surprising : a plastic tree that can be clipped in the most fantastic ways (hedges, benches, pyramids, mazes, windmills !), it is also a poisonous tree with certain substances, taxol and taxotere, that have a therapeutic...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment La Poudre et la Feuille
Auteur | France | 1994

Native to South America, the history of coca has its roots in the Pre-Colombian America. The leaves of coca, used from the beginning of time by the natives to take away the sensations of thirst, hunger, cold and fatigue, arrived in Europe at the...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment La Coca
Auteur | France | 1994

La coca, plante divine utilisée dans les rituels religieux, est à l’origine profondément liée au peuple Inca. Mais en 1850, la fabrication de la cocaïne, mise au point par un chimiste allemand à partir de la feuille de coca, en bouleverse...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment Les Diaboliques
Auteur | France | 1993

Mandragore, belladonna, henbiane (hyoscyamus) and thorn apple (datura). Four plants with multiple facets, they are magical, hallucinatory, medical and poison plants, all the same time. This is not only because they all belong to the same...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment La Dame de cœur
Auteur | France | 1993

The foxglove is the queen of cardiotonic plants. This film shows us, with many documents, the other cardiotonic plants – scylla, lily of the valley, oleander and the strophantus – and follows through the centuries the development of research...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment L'Arbre à fièvre
Auteur | France | 1993

Quinine, extracted from the bark of the quinquina tree was the first efficient medecine in the history of malaria. It is still the common treatment for the disease. This is the history of this drug which is at the heart of a true adventure full...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment Le Blé cornu
Auteur | France | 1993

The ergot is a tiny mushroom parasite of ears of barley which has given rise to terrible epidemics with spectacular symptoms : gangrene of the limbs and attacks resembling epilepsy. The dezcription of this evil whose origin remained undiscovered...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment La Fleur du mal
Auteur | France | 1993

The poppy and the juice of its fruit were the first medecines against pain. Their story and that of their medical use is directly linked to that of the great periods of drug addiction. Brief historical reminders are given of the Opium Wars from...

Pas de photo disponible pour le moment L'Enfant du saule
Auteur | France | 1993

Using many documents and interviews with medical specialists this tells the story of aspirin from its extraction from the willow and meadow-sweet to its present use.


10 films