A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative...
Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic accident.To thank him, she invites him to drink at her house.She commits suicide a few moments later in the bathroom with her service weapon.Antoine swears to himself that he won't say a word about this...
The life and work of French naturalist-scientist-priest Père Armand David, living as a missionary in China, who is thought to be the first Westerner ever to lay eyes on a wild panda as he was documenting species of Chinese flora and fauna.
