PIAF: HER STORY, HER SONGS
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NOLA Code:
PIAF 00H1
Number of Episodes/Length:
1 / 90
Genre:
Rights End:
8/8/2025
Producer
Sparrow Productions
Year Produced:
2006
Version:
Base
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Part documentary, part stage performance, this entertaining look at French chanteuse Edith Piaf tells her story through a terrific theatrical presentation by singer Raquel Bitton, who literally becomes Piaf while singing, but steps back and tells her story - in English - between the mostly French songs. Archival photos of Piaf illustrate her life of lucky breaks and tragedy. Some of the film's best moments are of Bitton and Piaf’s friends, lovers, composers happily discussing Piaf over food and wine at a Paris bistro. Featuring 16 songs performed with a full orchestra, including La Vie En Rose, No Regrets, Hymn To Love.
Winner of Gold Telly Award and Special Jury Award for Most Moving Film Experience – Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Edith Piaf (A biography)
Written by Raquel Bitton
December19, 1916 - October 11, 1963: Throughout her tempestuous life and explosive career,
EDITH PIAF cast a spell over all who came in contact with her. This tiny person, the little "Sparrow"
as she was called, stood four feet ten, who performed in a simple black dress, was a volcano,
a force of nature.
Her meteoric ascension left an indelible mark not only on her native France, but throughout the
world. After Piaf, popular singing would never be the same.
She was born Edith Giovanna Gassion. Her mother, a street singer and drug addict, gave birth
to her in the doorway of an apartment building and soon abandoned her. She spent her first
years in the streets with her father who was a street artist, acrobat and contortionist. After a
while he left her in the care of his mother, who kept a bordello in Normandy.
As a child, she suffered from Keratitis, a temporary blindness. Edith attributed the recovery
of her sight to Saint Therese de Lisieux, and the prayers of the ladies of the night she lived
with in her grandmother's
Program Rights
Broadcast Rights:
Unlimited
Rights Dates:
8/9/2010 - 8/8/2025
School Rights:
Unlimited
V.O.D. Rights:
Yes
V.O.D. Rights Type:
Concurrent w/broadcast rights
Linear Live Streaming:
Yes
Non-Commercial Cable Rights:
Yes
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