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Scapin: Act III Scene 2 (1978 Video)

Director

Michael Steele

Producer

Henry Philips

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 10 min.

In Molière’s play the scamp Scapin makes old Geronte believe he is being pursued by his enemies and persuades him to hide in a sack. He then beats him, pretending to be the enemies but is found out when...

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Andromaque: Act IV Scene 5 (1981 Video)

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

Act IV Scene 5 of Racine’s play, performed in three different styles by the same actress.

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Huis Clos (1979 Video)

Director

Michael Bowen

Producer

Douglas Jamieson

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 90 min.

In Sartre’s play, known in English as ‘In Camera’ or ‘No Exit’, two women and one man are locked for ever in the atheist Sartre’s vision of hell, where they gradually reveal their crimes and...

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Lady of the Camellias (1911 Film)

aka: Dame Aux Camelias, La

Director

André Calmettes

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

From the play by Alexandre Dumas. A significant example of filmed theatre acted in the highly theatrical style of the period. French title LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS.

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Beaumarchais 1 (1996 Video)

aka: Beaumarchais L’Insolent

Director

Edouard Molinaro

Producer

Charles Gassot

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

A costume drama based on the life of the 18th-century dramatist Beaumarchais.

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Beaumarchais (196 Film)

Producer

Roger Stephane

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Armand Salacrou on Beaumarchais.

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Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £52.00

Contemporary translation by Alan Drury. Directed by Patricia Derrington with the assistance of Anne White. Original music by Kathy Potter. Movement by Kriszta Doczy. Performed by the students of All Saints...

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MoliÈre (196 Film)

Director

Peter Coltman

Producer

Peter Coltman

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Hire, Film (16mm, 106 minutes)

Introduction to the life and work of the French dramatist and actor Molière. Using illustrations, his career is traced from fledgling actor to famous playwright and actor-manager. Argues that he was...

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Miserables, Les (1978) (2004)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 138 minutes), £5.99 (Prism)

A television adaptation of the story by Victor Hugo, set in France in 1796.

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In Camera (Wednesday Play) (1964)

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), Subscription only

Hell,' says Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘is other people’, and in tonight’s play he sets out to demonstrate this hypothesis. In Camera is a story of three individuals newly dispatched to Hell, utterly dissimilar...

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