Catalogue des films de « Patrick Le Gall »

Aux portes de Paris, la Plaine St Denis représente un lieu mythique : au cours de l'Histoire, elle est devenue lieu sacré, carrefour de routes et d’échanges, terre agricole, endroit de villégiature, premier centre industriel du pays, bastion...

There are today in France many villages of less than 1,000 inhabitants. Prosperous at the beginning of the 20th century, in a rural country, those old villages are now confronted to the problem of their own survival. That's the adventure of...

This film, based on the posthumous accounts of two soldiers, relates the odyssey of 20,000 Russian soldiers who were "lent" to the Allies in exchange for arms. In March 1917, after a year of fighting in the trenches of Champagne, they received...

The 3rd of September 1939, France declared war to Germany. The events that were taking place during those last days of peace and the weeks that followed are evoked by a dozen of witnesses that lived in the region of Toulouse, in the South West of...

We all practise dreaming, but few of us know how to use this fantastic source of information about ourselves. Scientists themselves for long disdained this unobservable and non-reproducible material. Then some of them set out to discover the...

Jean-Pierre Bodin n’a pas oublié ses jeunes années passées à l’harmonie municipale de Chauvigny, près de Poitiers. Ce comédien, ancien saxophoniste, retrace sur scène en un monologue comique la chronique joyeuse de son adolescence, un...

The odysee of the O. family was stopped short on Tuesday, December 28, 1992 near Montpellier. The trio, consisting of Jean and Martine O. and their daughter Sybille (15 years old) made a pact to end their lives together. Since that moment, nothing...

Un siècle en soixante-dix-huit tours : histoires de champions et de duels, mais aussi de vélos, de dérailleurs, de dopage. Fils d’un ancien commissaire du Tour, Patrick Le Gall réunit des images inédites de l’avant-guerre et porte un...

Who controls today the economic political, social and cultural power in French provincial towns ?

Emiliano Zapata, chef de la révolte paysanne au Mexique en 1910, héros légendaire pour les Mexicains, incarna aux côtés du chef rebelle Poncho Villa l'idéal révolutionnaire et la défense des pauvres contre le pouvoir en place. Ce...