The Desert of the Tartars 1976  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Max von Sydow
French army recruit Lt. Drogo (Jacques Perrin) is serving at an isolated fort where many are training to repel an attack by the Tartars. As days turn into months, the soldiers experience boredom, loneliness, and even paranoia as they wait for the enemy who some doubt will appear.
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Detective 1985  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Stephane Ferrara, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alain Cuny, Eugene Berthier, Cyril Autin, Julie Delpy
New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard sets this story in the elegant Hotel Concorde at St. Lazare, France, where a variety of characters seek love, money owed them, or even the solution to a murder mystery. The plot is confusing, but the feel is pure Godard.
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Medea 1969 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Margaret Clementi, Annamaria Chio, Sergio Tramonti, Paul Jabara, Luigi Barbini, Gerard Weiss, Gian Paolo Durgar
In this adaptation of Euripides' play, opera star Maria Callas plays Medea, the sorceress queen, who meets Jason (Giuseppe Gentile) when he arrives to recover the Golden Fleece stolen by Medea's father. She falls for Jason, they return to Greece, marry, and have two children. Ten years later, Jason tells her that he is going to wed another, and Medea demonstrates her destructive powers.
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Moses the Lawgiver 1975 TV, 300 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Moses
Director: Gianfranco De Bosio
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle, Ingrid Thulin, Irene Papas, Mariangela Melato, Bill Lancaster, Laurent Terzieff, Aharon Ipale, Youseg Shiloah, Marina Berti
Although the cast is of high caliber, this film–about Moses (Burt Lancaster), the Hebrew leader who leads his people to the Promised Land–just does not get off the ground. Showed as a TV miniseries, it was cut to about 1/2 it's length and had a short theatrical release.
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| 1. The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
2. Detective (1985)
3. Germinal (1993)
4. Medea (1969)
5. Moses the Lawgiver (1975)
aka: Moses
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