A mind hazájában, mind külföldön nagy sikert aratott filmben egy testvérpár, Nicola és Matteo, valamint családjuk, barátaik sorsát követjük nyomon csaknem négy évtizeden keresztül.
Az érettségi előtt álló, tizennyolc éves Gilles teljesen átlagos diákéletét éli osztálytársaival. 1971-ben azonban a politikai események felperzselik lázongó lelküket, és a fiatalokat megfertőzik az anarchista gondolatok. Tanulmányaik helyett a megjelenő lapok híreire koncentrálnak, s forrongó ideákat hirdetve graffitizik ki iskolájuk falait. A fiatalok lázadása az első pillanattól kezdve törvénybe ütköző, ám amikor erőszakossá válnak tetteik, már nem egyszerűen rejtőzködniük, hanem menekülniük is kell. Olivier Assayas hetvenes években játszódó, életrajzi ihletettségű filmje a felnőtté válás nehézségeiről és a meg nem értettségről szóló dráma. Assayas, filmjében fiatalok szemszögéből dolgozza fel a '60-70-es évek Európáját, s forradalmi hevülettel mutatja be az időszakot.
Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the struggle for sexual emancipation.
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
Antoine Doinel, miután leszerel a katonaságtól, felkeresi régi szerelmét, Christine-t. Munkát vállal egy szállodában, de onnan első nap kirúgják, így hát felcsap magándetektívnek.
A film egy vidéki kisvárosban játszódik az 1968-as párizsi diáklázadás idején. A család fejének számító öreg hölgy halálára egybegyűlik a népes nagypolgári família. De halottukat nem tudják eltemetni, mert a sírásók sztrájkolnak. Így hát a halottas ágy mellett vitatkoznak az örökségről, tort ülnek a kertben, teljesítik a hétköznapi kötelességeket, s közben áldoznak az élet kellemességeinek is. De zavaró hírek érkeznek Párizsból: a veszedelmes "baloldaliak" fenyegetően közelednek. A család pánikszerűen elmenekül a közeli erdőbe...
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile, on the eastern border of Turkey, in a Kurdish city between the borders of Iran and Iraq that is left to its destiny, in Hakkari, Zap River was taking lives since there were no passage on it.
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion, the Paris riots, Dubcek, Che Guevara, De Gaulle, Cohn-Bendrik and more. A dive into the chaos of a turbulent year, featuring fantastic colour footage and the music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrisson and Bob Dylan.
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
Feeling unfair about the power's portrayal of all its opponents, at the dawn of the '68 protests a young man decided to become a photographer to set things right. "Taking a good picture is a great act of faith". Tano D'Amico thus began a journey that would lead him to be at the forefront of the social battles of the 1970s: the birth of new movements, "the appearance on the threshold of history of a people who had never entered history", the hopes, illusions and betrayals. Tano still continues to photograph workers, the homeless, migrants, the last people and all those who take protest to the streets.
A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. Gerard's parents accuse Danièle of statutory rape and complain. Danièle is trapped and the drama begins...
During the summer of 1968, a young French woman staying in an isolated country house reflects upon her involvement in the events of that May.
With his film Generation '68, the author makes a homage to the generation with which he shares his youthful enthusiasm and the idea about a revolution that will change the world, while being "realistic and demanding the impossible". At the same time he questions the true impact of these changes on social and - probably more important - private level. Having ideas is easy; making them look credible to the generations that follow is somewhat more difficult. By rejecting the ideals of the 1968 as unworkable, the new generations are coming up with some of their own, maybe even more unrealistic ones...