Showing results for "Saints" in 20th Century

France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied France from Free France. As the little ones fly across the border and into their mothers' arms, she breathes a sigh of relief. No one is safe now. Not even the children.

Gravedigger John Gascoigne lives in Downfell Hurst with his wife, Florrie, their three children and his mother, Gran. John is a deep thinker but extremely taciturn - a man of few words and many grunts. Which is why everyone is alarmed when he's hit on the head by a cricket ball, and it suddenly seems as if the words won't stop. What's more, he says he is talking to Saint Christopher - only no one else can see the saint, and they're beginning to worry John's not quite right in the head.

Die Geschichte von Yves Saint-Laurents größter Inspiration – eine Frau, die alles für die Liebe riskiert. Paris, 1968: Als die junge Loulou zu einer Teestunde in illustrer Gesellschaft eingeladen wird, könnte sie sich nichts Langweiligeres vorstellen – und allgemein fällt es der in London geborenen jungen Frau schwer, in Frankreich anzukommen. Endlich hat sie es geschafft, aus dem Schatten ihrer berühmten Mutter herauszutreten, alles in ihr wehrt sich dagegen, sich von ihrem bunten, ausufernden Stil abzuwenden und der hier vorherrschenden kühlen Eleganz anzupassen.