The Man With a Movie Camera children's Leslie Caron stars as a

Leslie Caron stars as a young foundling reared by two veteran Parisian courtesans to be the mistress of a wealthy young gentleman

where a short film of theirs is being presented at the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

by kidnapping the entire cast and director of the film and putting through their own demented life and death games

President John Hunderson by telling him the nation is at war

He then has designs on her

The Man With a Movie Camera children's Leslie Caron stars as aDescribed by Dziga Vertov, its director, as an "experiment in the language of pure cinema," The Man With the Movie Camera is perhaps the most dazzling and sophisticated work not only of Soviet, but of world silent cinema. In part it is a "city symphony," although its urban landscape is actually a film synthesis of shots taken in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa and elsewhere. In part, it is a panorama of and a manifesto on the nature of socialist society in the