Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus while two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.

Vse Vertovy ("All The Vertovs") is a 50 minute documentary about the Kaufman brothers' quest to change the cinema landscape.
David, Mikhail and Boris. Three brothers worked their way into the history of world cinema. Senior, under the pseudonym of Dziga Vertov. The younger two, under his real name, Kaufman.
Born David Kaufman, Vertov was a rabbi's grandson and the eldest child of a semi-Russified bookseller; he grew up in Bialystok, a then mainly Jewish industrial city, hometown to the inventor of Esperanto, the universal language. Red October interrupted young David's studies, diverting his ambition to be a Futurist noise-poet. Kaufman became “Dziga Vertov” (a Russian-Ukrainian amalgam meaning “spinning top,” or perhaps “permanent revolution”), boarding one of the Bolshevik agit-trains that, crisscrossing Russia throughout the Civil War, were moving film labs devoted to the making and showing of short “agitational” newsreels. In the manifesto-mad Moscow of the early '20s, Vertov formed the Kinok (Cinema Eye) group with his wife, Elizaveta Svilova, and younger brother Mikhail Kaufman. (A third brother, Boris Kaufman, would go west to make movies with Jean Vigo and eventually win an Oscar for On the Waterfront.)

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?

A famous French filmmaker (Jean-Luc Godard) is hired by a major Hollywood producer (László Szabó) to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

档案影片《冬日现场》时长在1小时以上，影片内容包括《驳船亚特兰大号》的弃用片段，以及部分新发现的让·维果原片拍摄素材。导演剪辑完《驳船亚特兰大号》后，便离开巴黎去养病，由好友莫里斯·祖贝尔为原片配乐。近年人们在伦敦发现的《驳船亚特兰大号》拷贝版本，被公认为来自祖贝尔。
此前，法国电影资料馆馆长昂利朗瓦曾做过一部《驳船亚特兰大号》的修复版，其中加入了四十年代找到的部分原片的弃用片段。与之相比，《冬日现场》这部档案影片更清晰、更全面地呈现出让·维果最初的创作思路。该片由曾经参与过原片修复的著名电影史学家、策展人、研究者贝尔纳·艾森施茨（Bernard Eisenschitz）进行旁白讲解，追溯导演的创作历程与思路，也引领当代观众重回“冬日现场”，与让·维果相遇。