Madame Butterfly
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
Frédéric Mitterrand
Casts & Crew
Ying Huang
Yoshi Oida
Also Directed by Frédéric Mitterrand
Short film part of Paris Vu Par... 20 Years After
This document-portrait traces the career of Fairuz,one of the biggest stars of the Arabic music, born in Lebanon, and summarizes her success and her musical collaborations..This film is also a a moving portrait of a tortured dreamlike Lebanon
This documentary tells the story of the repression of homosexuals in the Soviet Union.
In this pretentious attempt to combine documentary scenes of Somalia's past and present economic and human tragedies with a highly personalized, private monologue, director and writer Frederic Mitterrand (nephew of François Mitterrand) becomes too self-absorbed and overly sentimental to pull off the experiment. Beginning with scenes of an unmade, empty bed, the narration reveals that a lover has just split for good, yet an assignment to cover events in Somalia has to continue. Those "events" include on-going starvation and disease, refugee camps filled with the human detritus of desert warfare, and interviews with Somali militarists -- raising the issue of exactly what type of personal narration could ever successfully play off the somber and depressing Somalian conflicts -- the very concept itself seems doomed from the beginning.
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
Profile of the Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, at the head of a country that has experienced colonization, the wars of the 20th century and the tragic period of the Khmers Rouge.
English subtitles. Queen Geraldine, a young, penniless Hungarian countess, married King Zog of Albania in 1938 after years of exile. The media nicknamed Geraldine, "The Rose of Tirana". Through this romantic destiny, the tormented history of Albania is brought to light.