Peter Ustinov
Also Known As: Sir Peter Ustinov, Питер Устинов, Peter Alexander Baron Von Ustinow, پیتر اوستینوف
Biography: Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE ( 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement. Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov. In 2003, shortly before his death in 2004, Durham University renamed its Graduate Society as Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Sir Peter had made while serving as Chancellor of the University from 1992 onwards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Ustinov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Camden, London, England, UK
Birthday: April 16, 1921
Deathday: March 28, 2004
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Gender: Male
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Animal Farm
Overview: Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-03
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Imaginary Friends
Overview: Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-13
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Lorenzo's Oil
Overview: Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-30
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The Bachelor
Overview: Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday: tomorrow! Not being able to find Anne, Jimmie begins backtracking through his past girlfriends to find a wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-05
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Evil Under the Sun
Overview: An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-05
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Death on the Nile
Overview: As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-29
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The French Revolution: Years of Rage
Overview: Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror with the execution of Robespierre.
Genres: Drama War History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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Appointment with Death
Overview: Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Logan's Run
Overview: In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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Billy Budd
Overview: Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Topkapi
Overview: Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Luther
Overview: During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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We're No Angels
Overview: Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-07
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The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Overview: Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Overview: Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Murder in Three Acts
Overview: In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Thirteen at Dinner
Overview: Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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Dead Man's Folly
Overview: During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Robin Hood
Overview: With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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The Egyptian
Overview: In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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Hot Millions
Overview: A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-19
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The Way Ahead
Overview: A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Lola Montès
Overview: Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Overview: Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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The Mouse and His Child
Overview: A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding".
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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The Sundowners
Overview: In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-08
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Beau Brummell
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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Blackbeard's Ghost
Overview: The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
Overview: Schönbrunn is a world of marvels and mystery, of public glamour and curious secrets. The wealth of its building and landscape architecture, the grand views and hidden details, the wildlife, tamed nature as well as its past and present human population supply more stories and images than even the most insatiable camera can record.Schönbrunn in the protean succession of the seasons, of light and shadow, day and night is presented by Sir Peter Ustinov and was broadcasted in the “ORF-UNIVERSUM”-series for the 250th anniversary of the Schönbrunn Zoo.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-12-19
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: 1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell's grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn't sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell's grandfather.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Everyman
Overview: Bert Haanstra paints a portrait of The Netherlands and the Dutch, in his own unparalleled manner. Partly with the aid of a hidden camera he observes people in the most diverse situations. He shows the unusual in the usual and the usual in the unusual. The harsh years of the post war era of reconstruction have passed and for most people life is better than before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Viva Max!
Overview: In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Overview: Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Hotel Sahara
Overview: World War II farce about the hotel of the title
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-09
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The Spies
Overview: A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-10
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Odette
Overview: The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Lady L
Overview: Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-17
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Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Overview: While silent-film star Charlie Chaplin may have charmed American audiences with the onscreen antics of his lovable "Tramp" character, the actor's private life was marred by a series of public scandals that eventually pushed him into exile. In addition to his penchant for much younger women, Chaplin was unjustly hounded by Senator Joe McCarthy's notorious anti-Communist witch hunts, for which the U.S. revoked his visa in 1952. A bitter and disenchanted Chaplin responded by moving his family to Switzerland, where he remained until his death in 1977. This documentary chronicles Chaplin's life and career during those so-called "forgotten years" (during which he became a prolific and highly respected film-score composer) through previously unreleased archival footage and intimate interviews with his friends and family, including his children Geraldine, Michael, and Eugene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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Babar Comes to America
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-07
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Overview: Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Ashanti
Overview: Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-21
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Hammersmith Is Out
Overview: The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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The Comedians
Overview: American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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The Purple Taxi
Overview: With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Stiff Upper Lips
Overview: Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Overview: During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
Overview: Stuck in their late Grandfather's country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a mouldy old carpet and a strange golden egg. But when the egg accidentally falls into the bonfire, it hatches into the mythical firebird, the Gloden Phoenix. So begins an amazing journey and the adventure of a lifetime, as the Phoenix takes them to a land of enchantment, magic and fantasy - via a magic flying carpet. Written by L.H. Wong
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-21
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The Man Who Wagged His Tail
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Romanoff and Juliet
Overview: Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Diaghilev: The Years Abroad
Overview: This is one of the Omnibus programmes about the Russian impresario Diaghilev. Presented by Peter Ustinov, this episode focuses on Diaghilev’s early life and the first seasons of his legendary ballet company Ballets Russes from 1909 until the outbreak of war in 1914. Friends and colleagues, including Cecil Beaton and prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina, reveal what Diaghilev meant to them and the impact he had on both ballet and the artists he commissioned.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-02
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Winter Solstice
Overview: When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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After Mein Kampf
Overview: Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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The Thief of Baghdad
Overview: A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-10
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Granpa
Overview: Granpa tells stories to his granddaughter Emily, who imagines them as crayon drawings in motion.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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Grendel Grendel Grendel
Overview: This is an animated story covering the ancient legend of Beowulf, as narrated by Grendel himself, the "monster" in the legend. Aimed more at adults than children, this version holds some interesting twists on the traditional tale, and is based on a novel by American critic and academic John Gardner.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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The Goose Steps Out
Overview: Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Kein Abend wie jeder andere
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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An Audience with Peter Ustinov
Overview: A classic live performance of Peter Ustinov, actor and raconteur, in which he shares his comical stories with a celebrity audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-03
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Parkinson at 50
Overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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Deutschlandspiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper
Overview: A panel of experts examines the five main suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders and determines which of them is the most likely to have committed the crimes.
Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-31
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Overview: Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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Memed My Hawk
Overview: In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-10
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A Storm in Summer
Overview: A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-06
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My Khmer Heart
Overview: An Australian woman fights to save her orphanage in Cambodia against the country's ever-changing political backdrop.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-06
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The Legend of the Good Beasts
Overview: Fabergé animals in a Russian influenced Easter tale.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Pierre et le Loup
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-25
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Morte no Tejo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-10
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The Great Muppet Caper
Overview: Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery Music Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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The Peaches
Overview: A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventually replaced by a very different type of passion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Metamorphoses
Overview: Several animated stories from "Metamorphoses," the Roman poet Ovid's narrative of legends, are presented.
Genres: Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-03
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Overview: In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Beethovens Zehnte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-28
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Magic Flute
Overview: The Queen of the Night has begged Prince Tamino to free her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the High Priest Sarastro, who has abducted her. Together with the bird-catcher Papageno, Tamino enters Sarastro's realm to seek her. When he finds her, the two fall in love, but they have to have to undergo ordeals before they can be together. At the end, Papageno is also rewarded with his Papagena.
Genres: Music Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Salem Witch Trials
Overview: Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-24
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Barefoot in Athens
Overview: The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-11
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Abgehört
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-20
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Gideon
Overview: The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Tarka the Otter
Overview: Set in the English countryside of the 1920s - when otter hunting was still legal - this film follows the life of Tarka the Otter from his birth into adulthood. We witness his close shaves, and his struggle with a man who tries to keep our furry hero as a pet.
Genres: Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Riders of the Wind
Overview: World-famous underwater adventurer Jacques Cousteau is on a journey on the surface of the sea. Along with Lucien Malavard and Bertrand Charrier, Cousteau invented a new kind of sailing vessel using a state-of-the-art, high-tech turbo sail. The tall, computer-controlled cylinder of metal sails the ship much like a conventional canvas sail, but is up to six times more efficient.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-14
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Overview: On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Big Truck and Sister Clare
Overview: A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to be rescued.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Paths of the Gods
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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The New Lot
Overview: A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Victoria & Albert
Overview: The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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Women of the World
Overview: A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-30
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The Trouble With Agatha Christie
Overview: An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and members of her family.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Einstein's Universe
Overview: A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Peep and the Big Wide World
Overview: Peep the chicken ventures out on an adventure into the Big Wide World and makes some friends along the way. Narrated by Peter Ustinov, this 1988 short film commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada comprises three short stories starring Peep the chicken, Quack the duck, and Chirp the Robin, and eventually served as the inspiration for an ongoing 2004 animated series.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Marshal of Madrid
Overview: A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman.
Genres: Action Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
Overview: After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. Later, with cousins Celeste and Arthur, he returns to the great forest to be crowned King of the Elephants.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-21
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The Comedians in Africa
Overview: Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
Overview: In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-27
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Le Plaisir
Overview: Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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Summa Summarum - Sondersendung zu Heinz Rühmanns 75. Geburtstag
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Ein Abend mit Peter Ustinov
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Julie's Christmas Special
Overview: Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without some traditional Christmas favourites such as Julie’s Christmas Special. This special aired on ABC-TV on December 14, 1973 and featured special guests Peter Ustinov and Peggy Lee. Most memorably, Andrews and Lee duet on a trippy, campy medley that delightfully careens from hit to hit over the most fun 8 and a half minutes you'll ever have with your pants on. Andrews plays a TV Hostess whose wandered into a cardboard forest and stumbles across Lee as the Sugar Plum Fairy lazing on a divan and ready for some fun - complete with ultra soft-focus and a bedazzled microphone.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-24
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F1 Review 1987
Overview: Seven years after the sport came under the control of FOCA, Formula 1 was more intercontinental than ever and the coverage was increasingly benefiting from the latest recording technologies. From a standing start in Brazil, through 16 races, 4 continents and a flying finish in Adelaide, the 1987 season provided non-stop entertainment with spectacular racing - all supported by on-board and pit-lane footage, technical insights and characterful interviews. Williams-Honda teammates Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet fought it out all season long whilst checking for Ayrton Senna’s Lotus and the McLaren of Alain Prost in their rearview mirrors. Mansell should have had it with 6 wins to Piquet’s three, but a crash in Japan settled the title in the Brazilian’s favour. Narrated by Academy-Award-winning actor Peter Ustinov.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Bible According to Hollywood
Overview: Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Ben Hur, The Bible ... In the Beginning and many more titles. With iconic clips, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the likes of Charlton Heston, Peter Ustinov and Virginia Mayo, Dye's film is a celebration of the golden age of epic moviemaking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-09-03
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The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Overview: Having struggled to crack his brief, Dennis Hopper decides the only honourable act is to throw himself off a roof. Before this final act, Sir Peter Ustinov appears and bestows the Ten Commandments of Creativity upon the desperate advertising executive. The Ten Commandments become a template to navigate the state of creativity. Featuring Tarantino, Jeff Koons, Sean Penn, and Malcolm McClaren.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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Through Joy and Beyond
Overview: A biography of C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, one of the 20th century's most influential Christian writers. This film, hosted by Lewis' private secretary, contains many spoken excerpts from his writings and is illustrated by footage of the many places Lewis lived and worked throughout his life
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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The True Glory
Overview: A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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Private Angelo
Overview: Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-06
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Alekan le magnifique
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Double Murder
Overview: Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Nuclear Nightmares
Overview: Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from initiating the first nuclear strike. Although the world's political climate has mellowed since the Cold War era, Nuclear Nightmares takes the viewer back in time to gain a perspective of what it was like to live under a very real nuclear threat.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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The Mermaid Frolics
Overview: In May 1977 a second Amnesty benefit was held to build on the success of the first show and with the intent of developing momentum for a regularly-scheduled benefit show.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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We'll Grow Thin Together
Overview: Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-15
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Das Leben – ein Karussell: Max Ophüls und sein Werk
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-07-25
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The French Revolution: Years of Hope
Overview: First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792.
Genres: History Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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Children of Ghana
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Let the People Sing
Overview: An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Venezia, carnevale, un amore
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Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Abduction from the Seraglio
Overview: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" is a famous spectacle that is enigmatic and exotic at the same time - and just because of this it is not only perfect for the fantastic stage sets of the marionette theatre, but for Ustinov's winking presentation as well. Already in 1782 the Vienna audience was enchanted by the lyrical drama by which the new inhabitant Mozart presented himself as master of opera to the audience of the imperial city. On the one hand, "The Abduction of the Seraglio" is a subtle comedy, on the other hand it conveys important humanitarian values: the Europeans captured in an Ottoman palace are not saved by a military attack but by the generosity of the sovereign "Selim Bassa" - actually mortal enemy of the Habsburg monarchy which was at war with Turkey in Mozart's time!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Marriage of Figaro
Overview: With the opera "Le nozze di Figaro" commenced the remarkably successful cooperation between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The first night of "Figaro", presumably Mozart's most perfect musical comedy, was held in Vienna on May 1st, 1786. It is based on Beumarchais' "scandalous" comedy "La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro" which, after its first staging in the pre-revolutionary Paris of 1784, soon became a huge success throughout Europe. For the opera, the revolutionary content of the intricate comedy of love and conspiracy against the background of noble capriciousness was actually toned down but not completely abandoned. The extensive ensemble scenes, the treatment of the orchestra and the delicately nuanced musical profiles of the characters hit the target and, looking back, proved to be pioneering for following generations of musicians.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: Don Giovanni
Overview: Don Giovanni, opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte) that premiered at the original National Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787. The opera’s subject is Don Juan, the notorious libertine of fiction, and his eventual descent into hell. For Mozart, it was an unusually intense work, and it was not entirely understood in his own time. Within a generation, however, it was recognized as one of the greatest of all operas. Presented by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre with narration provided by Sir Peter Ustinov.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: Così fan tutti
Overview: Così fan tutte, comic opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that premiered in Vienna on January 26, 1790. It is the last of his three operas with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, the first two being The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787). Presented by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre with narration by Sir Peter Ustinov.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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