For more than 2,000 years, Lyon’s hours have followed one another. From dawn to night, over the centuries, we have seen this city whose commercial and industrial past has given it a false reputation for austerity. Old Lyon is the finest example of Renaissance architecture in the whole of France. Towers, staircases, underground passageways, hidden … Continued
The University of Algiers is 50 years old. It is an organisation grouping together four faculties. While disciplines such as law and literature are taught in the traditional way, the same cannot be said for other fields, such as science, which uses modern techniques. They were studied in a wide variety of places, because the … Continued
Some West African tribes smelted the iron ore they found in the ground and worked the metal, but who, when and where did they develop this delicate and rudimentary technique ? After using their own hands to build blast furnaces made of earth mixed with straw and ventilated by tuyères, and after making numerous sacrifices … Continued
A film about the old, new and future achievements of the Seine-Saint-Denis département. The dual face of a department in the Paris suburbs where historic remains and futuristic achievements stand side by side. Seine-Saint-Denis is home to the famous abbey church of Saint-Denis, the burial place of the kings of France. It is also where … Continued
Discovering an unknown, little-known or misunderstood region: the Auvergne, whose lunar landscapes at first glance make it as strange as a distant planet. Then it’s on to the search for different signs of the landscape, natural signs, human signs or even unusual signs, which will give us an in-depth knowledge of the country we are … Continued
On this ungrateful land, nature brutally imposes its law. In order to survive on a rocky spur, the eleven men brought by “Commandant Charcot” must show obstinacy, cunning and patience during a wintering period where meals, chores and scientific work alternate with a severe monotony. The short polar summer brings a little diversity to this … Continued
On the night of 24 August 410, an extraordinary event shook the world: the barbarian hordes of Alaric entered Rome… The death of an eternal city, the end of a civilisation, inspired the African bishop Augustine to write the twenty-two books of the “City of God”. This Latin Berber, who taught rhetoric before becoming a … Continued
The shyness and humility of the Indians of the Peruvian High Plateau are such that it takes them hours to make the slightest purchase. This is why the markets lasted so long in these places where pre-Columbian civilisations flourished, and whose testimonies, after having defied the centuries in the peace of their tombs, attest to … Continued
One evening in May 1948, aboard the “Force”, Paul Emile VICTOR and his companions saw the snowy ridges of Greenland rise up in the last ray of sunlight. After a stop at the last Eskimo trading post, they disembarked at the foot of immense ice cliffs, to the top of which the equipment was hoisted … Continued
“Land and sea”, the title already refers to Brittany, the ancient land of Armorique, Victor Hugo’s “foaming rock”. This film is a portrait of Brittany, not an inventory; it is not a review of famous sites, but a day in the life of Brittany, a day that could be this one as well as that … Continued