Silberman, Serge

Overview

Works:	64 works in 197 publications in 9 languages and 5,632 library holdings
Roles:	Producer, Performer
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1960 |

|2020

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Publications about Serge Silberman

Publications by Serge Silberman

Most widely held works by Serge Silberman

乱 ( Visual )
32 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 1,093 libraries worldwide
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie ( Visual )
17 editions published between 1972 and 2009 in French and held by 1,046 libraries worldwide
"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.

乱 ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in Japanese and held by 574 libraries worldwide
In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.

Le journal d'une femme de chambre ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2001 in French and held by 463 libraries worldwide
A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor rivalry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.

乱 ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1985 and 1998 in Japanese and held by 383 libraries worldwide
In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.

Le fantôme de la liberté The phantom of liberty ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in French and English and held by 375 libraries worldwide
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

La voie lactée The milky way ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1968 and 2007 in French and held by 354 libraries worldwide
Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.

Le trou ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1990 and 2007 in French and held by 317 libraries worldwide
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1985 in French and held by 133 libraries worldwide
Comedy about a dinner party at which the guests are interrupted whenever they try to eat.

Cet obscur objet du désir That obscure object of desire ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1977 and 2006 in French and English and held by 92 libraries worldwide
A wealthy older man has an affair with a young maid played by two different actresses in this darkly humorous satire on sexual obsession.

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in French and held by 82 libraries worldwide
Every time a group of upper middle class friends sits down to dine, odd things happen, giving film director Luis Buñuel opportunity to satirize such targets as diplomats, socialites, and even radical terrorists.

Le journal d'une femme de chambre The diary of a chambermaid ( Visual )
9 editions published between 2001 and 2006 in French and held by 53 libraries worldwide
A chambermaid with Paris flair, gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.

La Voie Lactée The Milky Way ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1987 and 2001 in French and held by 32 libraries worldwide
A surreal comedy on the history of human folly. Two scraggly hippie pilgrims set out on a modern odyssey that sends them travelling through time to meet Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Devil, the Marquis de Sade and a multitude of fools and knaves who wielded power in the name of holiness.

Ran ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in Japanese and held by 25 libraries worldwide
An aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and their father, spawning a whirlwind of chaos and leaving the old man insane, the kingdom shattered and the family destroyed.

Max mon amour Max my love ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in French and English and held by 24 libraries worldwide
When a British diplomat in France suspects his wife is having an affair, he is totally unprepared when he realizes her secret lover is a chimpanzee called Max.

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre Diary of a chambermaid ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1987 in French and held by 18 libraries worldwide
A chambermaid takes a position with a decadent family on a Normandy estate in 1930 and finds herself in the middle of a hotbed of hypocrisy and perversion.

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
"Luis Bunuel's deliciously satiric masterpiece about social mores and class hypocrisy. Opening with a group of friends arriving on the wrong day for a dinner engagement, so begins a sequence of unexpected and unusual events. In their quest for a lavish feast, the dividing line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading the viewer on an intoxicating journey that at once appears both calculated and careless. A masterpiece of surrealist cinema"--Container.

Le journal d'une femme de chambre Cet obscur objet du désir ; La jeune fille ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1978 and 2009 in French and Spanish and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Middle-aged man falls in love with a much younger woman in this satire of sexual obsession.

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie Le fantôme de la liberté ; Gran Casino ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1982 and 2010 in French and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Las costumbres burguesas se echan por tierra en la joya surrealista de Luis Buñuel El fantasma de la libertad. Mostrando una velada elegante con invitados sentados en inodoros, monjes que juegan al póquer usando medallas religiosas como fichas, y oficiales de policía que buscan a una muchacha perdida que está justo debajo de sus narices, esta comedia de incongruencias, perversa y alegremente absurda, reúne muchos de los temas que preocuparon a Buñuel a lo largo de toda su carrera, desde la hipocresía de la moral convencional a la arbitrariedad de las convenciones sociales.

Rider on the rain ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and French and held by 12 libraries worldwide
When a beautiful young woman in the South of France is stalked and then attacked by a mysterious masked assailant, she is determined to seek revenge. Hunting him down, she kills him in cold blood and dumps his corpse in the sea. Trying to return to her life before the attack, her world is turned upside down when an American investigator turns up and to her horror, seems to know everything about what she has done.