Clara

Clara

1989 · 52 min · Documentary

"Clara, screenplay and dialogues of a Franco-Czechoslovak film, the co-director should have been the Czech filmmaker Kadar. Screenplay adaptated in 1989 by Philippe Garrel and students of the University of Paris X (Nanterre). The subject of the film - which is also a love story - is part of the political atmosphere, release the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party has changed both individual for a certain way of seeing and understanding History: political trials, purges in Czechoslovakia, Hungary events of 1956, Algeria war, cold war." - KG

Directed by Philippe Garrel

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