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This is a filmography for films and artistry on the graphic, theatrical and conventional, documental portrayal of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. In 2005 Alison Des Forges wrote that eleven years after the genocide films for popular audiences on the subject greatly increased "widespread realization of the horror that had taken the lives of more than half a million Tutsi".
The Private Lesson (French: La leçon particulière) is a 1968 French drama film directed by Michel Boisrond and starring Nathalie Delon, Renaud Verley and Robert Hossein. [1] It was shot on location around Paris and Avoriaz in the French Alps .
The Lesson (French: La Leçon) is a one-act play by French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. It was first performed in 1951 in a production directed by Marcel Cuvelier (who also played the Professor). [1] Since 1957 it has been in permanent showing at Paris' Théâtre de la Huchette, on an Ionesco double-bill with The Bald Soprano. [2]
Le lieutenant de Kouta ("The Lieutenant of Kouta") is a 1979 novel by Malian author Massa Makan Diabaté.Loosely based on the author's hometown of Kita, Mali, [1] the novel tells the story of a recently returned lieutenant from the French Colonial Army, Siriman Keita, and his struggle to adjust to his village's changing customs.
Apocalypse: World War I (in French: Apocalypse, la Première Guerre mondiale) is a TV series made up of 5 French documentaries created by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, and narrated by Mathieu Kassovitz. Originally broadcast in 2014, it chronologically traces the history of World War I, from its origins to the end of the war. It gathers ...
A law was passed on April 30, 1921 establishing the new Croix de guerre for "Théâtres d'opérations extérieurs" (TOE). It was intended to commemorate the individual citations awarded during operations carried out since November 11, 1918 or that would occur in the future, for war service directly related to an expeditionary force used outside of the borders of France, otherwise, the statute ...
The French Art of War (French: L'Art français de la guerre) is a 2011 novel by the French writer Alexis Jenni, published by Éditions Gallimard. It is an adventure story about the military history of France in Indochina and Algeria. [1] It received the Prix Goncourt, with five votes to three against Carole Martinez's Du domaine des Murmures . [2]
Leçons de ténèbres were a particular French subgenre of this music which rose to prominence during the reign of King Louis XIV, with other similar settings being composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Michel Delalande and others. Couperin's settings of the Leçons de Ténèbres are scored for soprano vocalists and basso continuo.