Plot
A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, 19th-century, adultery, asian-woman, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, billiards, blindfold, brothel
Love knows no borders
Come back, or I shall die.
Each step away from her... brings him closer.
Baldabiou: I once knew a man who built his own railroad. It was completely straight. Not one curve in it. He had a reason for that. I don't remember what it was. Reasons get forgotten.
Baldabiou: There seems to be some trouble in Japan...
Hélène Joncour: What is it?::Hervé Joncour: It's your garden.::Hélène Joncour: It's my garden?::Hervé Joncour: Well, not quite. Not yet. For now, it's a plot of land. Our land. And the house is also ours. This is where we'll grow old Helene.::Hélène Joncour: But I don't understand...::Hervé Joncour: The eggs have hatched, they're perfect. This year's production will be huge, and Baldabiou has already paid us our share. We're rich, Helene. We're very very rich!::Hélène Joncour: [Awestruck] And this for such tiny eggs...
Hervé Joncour: [toasts] To our lasting friendship.
[first lines]::Hervé Joncour: Steaming water. Strange trees. Laughing children. Her skin... those eyes. But why should I tell you about it? Why now? Maybe I just need to tell someone about it. And that someone is you.
Plot
Since the death of his mother, Pascal, ten years old, spends his holidays with his father, the rich Laurent Segur. One day, when diving near the shores of Corse, an aircraft falls into the sea. The holiday goes on happily with Catherine, the young and pretty girlfriend of Laurent. But soon blue marks appear on the face of Pascal. He has been contaminated by a nuclear weapon carried by the destroyed plane, and he won't survive more than six months. There is nothing Laurent can do, except give his son the best six months he has ever lived.
Keywords: based-on-novel, cancer, christmas, father-son-relationship, melodrama, radiation, wolf
Plot
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.
Keywords: alcoholism, barbecue, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, cigarette-smoking, fistfight, gas-station, moving-van, pajamas, push-ups
Verdun (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ.dœ̃]; medieval German: Wirten, official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital of the department is the slightly smaller city of Bar-le-Duc.
Verdun (Latin: Verodunum, meaning "strong fort") was founded by the Gauls (as its Celtic name shows; "Dunum" is the Latinized version of a Celtic word meaning oppidum). It has been the seat of the bishop of Verdun since the 4th century AD, with interruptions. In the Treaty of Verdun in AD 843, the empire of Charlemagne was divided into three parts.
At around this time Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. Less controversially, the city has been famous for Dragées or sugared almonds from 1200 onwards; they were distributed at the baptism of French princes.
Verdun was part of the middle kingdom of Lotharingia, and in 1374 it became an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire. The Bishopric of Verdun formed together with Tull (Toul) and Metz the Three Bishoprics, which were annexed by France in 1552 (recognized in 1648 by the Peace of Westphalia).
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (World War II), and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.
Pour celui qui en revient
Verdun, c'tait bien
Pour celui qui en est mort
Verdun, c'est un port
Mais pour ceux qui n'taient pas ns
Qu'taient pas l pour apprcier
C'est du pass dpass
Un champ perdu dans le nord-est
Entre Epinal et Bucarest
C'est une statue sur la grand place
Finalement Verdun
Ce n'est qu'un vieux qui passe
Mme si l'histoire nous joue souvent
Le mouvement tournant par Sedan
C'est du pass
C'est la chanson des Partisans
C'est 1515, c'est Marignan
Dpass
Une guerre qui s'est perdue sans doute
Entre Biarritz et Knokke-le-Zoute
C'est une statue sur la grand place
Finalement la terreur
Ce n'est qu'un vieux qui passe
Pour ceux qu'on n'a pas revus
Verdun, n'est plus rien
Pour ceux qui sont revenus
Verdun, n'est pas loin
C'est un champ brl tout petit
Entre Monfaucon et Charny
C'est ct
C'est une sortie dans le nord-est
Sur l'autoroute de Reims Metz
On y va par la voie sacre
Finalement, Verdun
C'est un vieillard rus
J'ai une tendresse particulire
Pour cette premire des dernires guerres
Dpasse
Bien sr que je n'tais pas n
J'n'tais pas l pour apprcier
Mais j'avais un vieux Verdun
Et comme je n'oublie jamais rien
Je reviens
Je reviens