Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, 'The Duellists' tells the story of two French military officers, Armand d'Hubert and Gabriel Féraud, who are locked in a seemingly endless series of duels. Their feud spans several decades and takes them through various battles and settings, including a wedding cake competition, a tarot card reading, and the historic Battle of Waterloo. As the duels continue, the personal vendetta between d'Hubert and Féraud intensifies, putting their lives and honor at stake.
Hamid is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer whom he must confront.
Leo is a 22-year-old male prostitute who yearns for love and connection. He navigates the dangerous and bleak world of hustling, facing violence, abuse, and disease. Amidst the darkness, Leo forms unexpected friendships and explores his own sexual desires, ultimately searching for redemption and a sense of belonging.
In Baden-Baden, a 26-year-old Frenchwoman named Ana returns to her hometown of Strasbourg after finishing a construction job. While there, she becomes involved in a series of encounters and experiences that lead her to question her future. As she navigates her relationships and seeks to find meaning in her life, Ana finds herself exploring themes of self-discovery and personal growth.
Strasbourg was home to one of three Reich Universities founded by the Nazis, known as a project close to Hitler's heart. The university, founded in 1941, is infamous for the human experiments performed on KZ prisoners by the professors of the medical faculty. What did its dean, Johannes Stein, grandfather of documentarian Kirsten Esch, know of these crimes?
Through a notebook, a man navigates between memories and emotions in order to find the trace of an unknown woman.
In the first half of the 19th century there was a revolt in the central state of Hesse, led by Georg Büchner (Gregor Hansen), the well-known German writer, and a fellow rebel, Pastor Weidig (Franz Wittich). Büchner wrote a kind of declaration of peasant rights against the tyranny of the landholders of the time, and once that declaration ("Der Hessische Landbote") was made public, Büchner escaped to Strasbourg, and then to Zurich where he was killed in 1937, at the age of 23. Pastor Weidig was captured, sent to prison, tortured, and killed in prison. The revolution the two men had hoped for died on the vine due to an informer -- a planned uprising was brutally squelched -- and the peasants had to bide their time for another 12 years before the 1848 Revolution would bring them some of the rights demanded in Büchner's pamphlet.
Hans and Jan Bitner live on opposite sides of the iron curtain. Hans lives in France, he leads a quiet life. Bitner is a Pole, involved in the fight for a free Poland. Their lives are different, but there is one detail that links them.
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