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Nikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Viktor Mikhalkov (I)). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.

Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 - 17 February 1998) was a highly decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an affluent upbringing and sought adventure in the Wandervogel, before running away to briefly serve in the French Foreign Legion, an illegal act. Because he escaped prosecution in Germany due to his father's efforts, Jünger was able to enlist on the outbreak of war. During an ill-fated German offensive in 1918 Jünger's World War I career ended with the last and most serious of his many woundings, and he was awarded the Pour le Mérite, a rare decoration for one of his rank. In the aftermath of World War II, Jünger was treated with some suspicion as a possible fellow traveler of the Nazis. By the latter stages of the Cold War, his unorthodox writings about the impact of materialism in modern society were widely seen as conservative rather than radical nationalist, and his philosophical works came to be highly regarded in mainstream German circles. Jünger ended life as an honoured establishment figure, although critics continued to charge him with the glorification of war as a transcending experience.

Who was Pol Pot, the criminal leader of the Red Khmer Rouge? This portrait draws on archival footage and rare eyewitness accounts, including the only interview with Pol Pot made before his death by American journalist Nate Thayer. Pol Pot, whose real name was Saloth Sar, remains an enigma. No other revolutionary leader has left so few traces. Pol Pot almost always refused to give interview, not only when he was in power but even later on, when he took refuge with his troops in the Cambodian forests. But in 1997, the Khmer Rouge movement imploded.

In three parts, a history of the communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia and the calling of its leadership to account under International Law for the genocide which it inflicted upon the Cambodian people between 1975 and 1979, resulting in the deaths of between 1.5 to 2 million people: Pol Pot et les Khmers rouges (part one), Camarade Duch: bienvenue en enfer (part two), Khmers rouges: une simple question de justice (part three).

The Algiers putsch also known as the Generals' putsch was a failed coup d'état to overthrow French President Charles de Gaulle and establish a military junta. Organised in French Algeria by retired French army generals Maurice Challe (former commander-in-chief in French Algeria), Edmond Jouhaud (former Inspector General of the French Air Force), André Zeller (former Chief of staff of the French Ground Army) and Raoul Salan (former commander-in-chief in French Algeria), it took place from the afternoon of 21 April to 26 April 1961 in the midst of the Algerian War (1954-1962).

1917: The Russian Revolution

Documentary published on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Claude Lévi-Strauss in November 2008

Panorama of twelve American writers participating in the Les Belles Étrangères Festival.