Since 1922, Boulogne-Billancourt cinema studios have welcomed the greatest actors, directors and technicians of French cinema and have given birth to many masterpieces.

Boulogne-Billancourt - Le temps des studios

Inaugurated by Stalin in 1931 in Moscow, MOSFILM is the largest movie studio in Europe. The most famous Russian directors shoot and edit here, and the 5000 employees who work on the gigantic sets contribute to the glory and radiance of Soviet cinema. Some masterpieces still remain vivid in our minds. Via an inventory of these studios and Russian cinema, the film recounts the history of a culture and a country traversed by a multitude of political upheavals.

Mosfilm Miroir d'un Empire

In light of the unprecedented economic boom that China is currently experiencing, Beijing is being completely transformed to accommodate the 2008 Olympics. The Chinese authorities are bulldozing entire districts of the old city to the ground to make room for supermarkets and deluxe international hotels. Bearing witness to a rich and tormented history, the tiny streets of the old districts, called 'hutongs', have now become prey to real estate developers. Local inhabitants tell of the unscrupulous methods used by the government to get them to leave.

Un jour à Pékin

Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri". Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including the major works of Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman. The uncontested talent of the actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have given Swedish cinema a world recognition, a cinema that celebrates the power of the forces of nature, and where the inner life of its characters remains in our memories.

Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois

On the night of 12-13 August 1961, the GDR erected a wall that separated Berlin in two. Very quickly, the cinema takes hold of the subject. In the West as in the East, spies, fugitives, smugglers, agents of the Stasi are waging a cold war that inspires writers and directors - Illustrated by numerous film extracts and punctuated by testimonials from actors and directors, film tells the crossed story of the Wall and German cinema.