Movies: Christopher Hampton

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father....

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests....

Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels....

Filmed segments from Jamie Lloyd’s reimagining of Sunset Boulevard, featuring the 2024 Broadway cast....

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the first American who entered the home of the “Red Napoleon”. The fruit of this friendship is a film, pe...

The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, a...

Sunset Boulevard is Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical. It is based on Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film. "Sunset Boulevard" is the story of faded glory and unfulfilled ambition. Silent movie star Norma Desmond longs for a return to the big screen h...

Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returni...

In modern day Los Angeles, writer Paul Verlaine invites young provocating poet Arthur Rimbaud into the home of his step-family, losing interest in his wife as he becomes infatuated with the boy....

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him....

Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home....

The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters....

Set over a turbulent New Year’s Eve in 1940s Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard is a compelling story of romance and obsession. Directed by Nikolai Foster, the performance features Ria Jones reprising her role as silent-screen goddess Norma Desmond, with Da...

Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo....

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and...

German production of the Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn as shown in the Wilhelmsburg in Ulm, Germany....