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- A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
- Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
- The story of a young geisha who falls madly in love with an american captain that travels all around the world collecting hearts.
- Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect one of the supermarkets. The manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. When exposed he expects to lose his job. Instead friendship develops between him and Martial who remitted the debt. A sexual relation begins between Francine and Martial, without jealousy from her boyfriend Fernand. Suddenly Martial disappears. He was called to his mother's sickbed. Francine took a job as a waitress. It is not clear if she understood that the owner of the bar would force her to do sexual services for some customers. To save Francine Fernand kills the owner. The only witness is Martial who says 'Run! Do you want to spend ten years in prison!' If he takes the murder on him, he will just return to the luxury hospital he recently came from. Only Francine saw a glimpse of Fernand and understood what really happened. The double sacrifice radically changed her emotions: she came to feel for Fernand as for an older brother and they parted.
- Amanda investigates her nephew Victorien's murder after he witnessed a government cover-up involving toxic gas deaths of 50 tourists. She finds herself targeted by assassin Alex, tasked with silencing those aware of the incident.
- With the coming opening (1971) of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacqueline Kennedy the widow of President Kennedy, asked Leonard Bernstein to write a piece to open its theater. Bernstein was a great American Composer and the preeminent conductor of the New York Philharmonic. It had been ten years since his 1961 success from West Side Story. The composer decided that the most universal quality of who John Kennedy was, was that he was the first Catholic president. Bernstein believed could create his version of the Mass in opera. Bach and Mozart had famously created orchestration based upon the segments of the Catholic mass. Through the music, from "confessions" to segments of the ritual, the opera 'questions' the relevancy of God and faith, but in the end reaffirms our faith and God's relevance in our lives. Opening night attendance was a parade of the powerful in DC including the wealthy and powerful government leaders.
- When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson. But Mistress Ford's husband is a very jealous man and is pumping Falstaff for information of the affair. Meanwhile the Pages' daughter Anne is besieged by suitors.
- Nicholas Hytner's enchanting production, sung in the original Czech, is conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, a master of the best Janacek style. Through myriad shifts of scene, the episodic story is presented in brightly-colored sets and costumes of blissful innocence and simplicity, designed by Bob Crowley. Jean-Claude Gallotta's choreography for the insects and animals, and Jean Kalman's lighting add to the nostalgically poetic effect of the whole. With Thomas Allen as the Forester, the cast includes Eva Jenis, Hanna Minutillo, Richard Novak and Ivan Kusnjer. This live recording comes from the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.
- The Orchestre de Paris is one of the rare French orchestras to be invited by the very prestigious Musikverein in Vienna. It is in this hall that the famous New Year's concert is given and filmed each year and broadcast live around the world. Named Goldener Saal (Golden Hall), the large hall has kept the characteristics and the interior aspect of its inauguration in 1870. It is in this setting, considered as one of the greatest international temples of classical music, as much by the quality of its acoustics as by the requirement of its public, that Paavo Järvi will conduct a program very representative of the repertory of the Orchestre de Paris, mixing typically French pages and symphonic bravura pieces.