Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a t…
Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only …
One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The th…
During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them d…
An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments- Pialat states that modernity and subu…
Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five…
A Catholic holiday in a rural village in Auzelles, the filmmaker's native region in the Massif Centr…
Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years o…