This series retraces the origins and journeys of major European works of international significance, whose original manuscript has survived through the ages. Each film attempts to analyze an original manuscript as if it were a crucial clue, in hopes to reveal the secrets behind each work.
During a summer afternoon of 1862, Lewis Caroll, takes for a ride the three daughters of Liddell, one of her is Alice. For them, he invents a tale, about a big white rabbit, who p…
Kafkaesque! This is the right word to describe this incredible, even miraculous, journey of the work of the Prague German-speaking writer. When Kafka died at 40 in 1924, he ordere…
Mozart himself said about his Don Giovanni: this work is divine, it is perhaps even more beautiful than "The Marriage of Figaro". When he was commissioned by the director of the P…
Victor Hugo spent 16 years writing “Les Misérables”, between Paris, Guernsey and Waterloo. It was a long creative process and not only because the manuscript has 828 leaves. The s…
Simon Schama's John Donne
Odyssey: Behind the Myth
Hello Kitty's Animation Theater
Deltora Quest
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
Blast of Tempest
The Wings of the Dove
A Hero of Our Time
Banana Fish
Les histoires à Dodo Rmirdebout
Requiem of the Rose King
Arte Journal
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