Vernon Dobtcheff Movies

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

The story of a man who believed God was changing him into a woman so he could save the world.

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

Set in Paris, an ancestral home holds the key to a family's future.

Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector...

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. In the Fourth and Fifth Centuries BC, the Greeks...

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian...

French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).

A flurry of anonymous letters and two suicides leads Inspector Van der Valk to a mission in Drente where small-town hysteria may just lead to one of...

Guillaume has been looking after Anthony, his sick companion, for the last couple of years. But his world is turned on its head when Anthony decides...

This is another variation of the Cinderella story: the bright and beautiful Ella lives in the household of a lord since her mother died. She's...

A fallen angel seeks redemption for the death of a child under his protection.

Shot on location in Goa, Southern India, it concerns a young man's search for his missing father, across beaches, through deserts, down rivers and...

A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide.

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to...

In the pre-WWI Austro-Hungarian Empire, an older officer (Capt. Kunze) investigates a brilliant junior officer (Lt. Dorfrichter) suspected of...

Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.