Catalogue des films de « Jean Umansky »

Born in 1969 in the forests of Borneo, Nénette has just turned forty. It is rare for an orang-utan to reach such a venerable age! A resident of the menagerie at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris since 1972, she has spent more time there than any...

In the spring of 1993, Sarajevo was still under siege. Food reserves had been exhausted and the defenders of the city were short of ammunition. In the family house of the Slobadas, whose surname means "freedom", a group of people started to dig a...

1967 is the year when the "movement" known as "counter-culture" became a visible phenomenon, an object of mass-mediation that in turn gave way to a widespread mass phenomenon, which one could call the Bohemian mass. This film revisits the scene of...

Leningrad, 1939. Stalin is now the unrivalled master of the Soviet Union, Socialist Realism has been imposed as the officcial aesthetic doctrine and poets and artists are arrested and "disappear". Benjamin Fleischmann, a young student at the...

Gods do not easily survive traffic jams or television. But it's the opposite with Ogun, the most intriguing divinity if the Yoruba pantheon (Nigeria), who is quite simply the creator of the modern world. Inventor of iron and of the road - which...

In Indonesia, off the coast of Sumatra, some families still live cut off from any modern civilization in the least accessible region of Siberut island. For several years now many children have had the possibility of leaving their families in order...

Au cimetière Montparnasse (14e), lors de l'installation sur la tombe d'Henri Langlois d'une stèle funéraire en verre composée de photos de cinéma, des comédiens et des metteurs en scène rendent un dernier hommage à ce passionné du...

"That winter, at the time when Saint Francis lived in the city of Gubbio, there appeared in the region a wolf who was terribly ferocious and who attacked people and animals. Francis decided to face the wolf. He had always managed to talk to...

At the time of the Revolution, Paris was still mediaeval. One hundred years later it was the "model City", yardstick by which other Europeans cities were judged. How ? Why ? On the occasion of the centenary of the death of baron Haussmann,...

What does the Louvre look like in the absence of visitors ? For the first time a great museum unveils itself to the eyes of a film team : paintings being hung up, rooms rearranged, works of art moved around, watchmen trying on their uniforms......