Direction: Joris Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Serge Reggiani

Synopsis Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver recovers a boy's lost bicycle. C'est la vie. It's "a river like...

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Roger Pigaut

Synopsis Scenes of life and landscape in Provence where a chilly wind called the Mistral blows down the valley of the Rhône to the Mediterranean. The Provençal terrain is dry and parched; the infrequent clouds dissolve in the sky. Farm animals...

Direction Joris Ivens

Synopsis A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators. The poorest residents on the hilltops have trouble obtaining water...

Direction Claude Lelouch · Agnès Varda · Jean-Luc Godard · Chris Marker

Cast Anne Bellec · Karen Blanguernon · Bernard Fresson · Maurice Garrel

Synopsis Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out...

Direction Joris Ivens · Henri Storck

Direction Joris Ivens · Marceline Loridan Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens · Marceline Loridan Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Mannus Franken · Joris Ivens

Synopsis Rain falls on a Dutch city.

Direction Joris Ivens

Synopsis A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Fredric March

Synopsis The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities......

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Frank Capra · Joris Ivens

Synopsis The hour-long film sought to educate American soldiers about their adversary's history and society, particularly the course up to the Pacific War, and the totalitarian nature of the Japanese state. Today, it’s used to show the influence of images and...

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Joris Ivens · Hans Ivens · Jacoba Ivens · Peter Ivens

Synopsis On the age of 13 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from his father's shop. This became his first film Wigwam, with...

Direction Joris Ivens

Synopsis This short documentary examines the role of convoy ships during World War II, focusing on the Corvette Port Arthur. The corvette, a highly mobile weapon of destruction, is used to combat German U-boats and escort convoys through the Atlantic Ocean....

Direction Joris Ivens · Alfons Machalz · Vladimir Pozner

Synopsis Tribute to all the mothers in the world.