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06.01.04


91Èȱ¬ FOUR


91Èȱ¬ FOUR February 2004 highlights


Ali Zaoua
Historians of Genius – In Their Own Words
Tetris – From Russia With Love
The Three Sisters
The Trespasser


Ali Zaoua


Ali Zaoua is one of many boys left to wander the streets of Casablanca, sniffing glue and getting into scrapes, until one day he and his friends are set upon by another gang of boys and Ali is killed.


Kwita, Omar and Boubker are devastated and decide to give Ali a burial fit for a prince. The film shows the grim life of these young boys.


Ali Zaoua sharply contrasts the harshness of the brutal world in which the boys live with the innocence of childhood hopes they are unlikely to fulfil.


Nabil Ayouch directed the film, released in 2000, which he co- wrote with Nathalie Saugeon.


Ali Zaoua receives its UK television premiere as part of 91Èȱ¬ FOUR's Saturday Cinema strand.


Historians of Genius – In Their Own Words


If the great historians of the past were alive today, how would they compare to the Simon Schamas and David Starkeys of the TV celebrity age?

Bill Paterson by the River Seine in Paris


That is the question posed by this fascinating series, which uses the techniques of contemporary television history to bring to life the work of three of the UK's greatest ever historical writers.


Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776– 88) is performed by Simon Russell Beale; Bill Paterson takes on the mantle of Thomas Carlyle to tell the story of The French Revolution (1837) and Samuel West delivers Thomas Macaulay's History of England (1849).


The text for the films is taken entirely from the books themselves, filmed on location and in modern dress.


Tetris – From Russia With Love


Tetris, the fiendishly addictive computer game, took the world by storm in the early Nineties. The story of its development and global success is as gripping as the game itself.


Tetris – From Russia with Love charts how a deceptively simple puzzle game, devised by a computer programmer at Moscow's Academy of Science in 1985, became one of the biggest selling computer games ever made.


It is a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds with some of the biggest companies in the capitalist West pitted against each other in the fight to secure the rights from Soviet Russia.


The Three Sisters


Kristin Scott Thomas, Robert Bathurst, James Fleet and Douglas Hodge head the cast of Christopher Hampton's acclaimed adaptation of Chekhov's The Three Sisters.


Directed by award winner Michael Blakemore and filmed at the London Playhouse Theatre, The Three Sisters is set in a provincial town in Russia and follows the Prozorov sisters
who reflect on their childhood and look forward to their reintroduction into Moscow society.


The play is a funny and moving study of character and relationship. This fascinating drama explores the dynamics between love, hope and fulfilment in the lives of the Prozorovs
and their friends.


The Trespasser


The Trespasser is a blistering thriller that shows the new Brazilian cinema at its sharpest and most uncompromising.


When Giba and Ivan have their business partner murdered, the hit man proves far more difficult to remove from their lives.


The film shows the grim reality of a gangster world, the imagined differences between the middle class and the slums, and the reality of the businessmen's and the hit man's ambitions
to fulfil their desires.


Released in 2002, The Trespasser is directed by Beto Brant and based on the novel written by Marcal Aquino.


It receives its UK television premiere as part of 91Èȱ¬ FOUR's Saturday Cinema strand.


Notes to Editors


91Èȱ¬ THREE February 2004 highlights (06.01.04)


Enter the danger zone of politics with 91Èȱ¬ FOUR this Winter - press pack (10.12.03)


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