Julia Jentsch is mesmerising as a real-life student who de"ed the Gestapo: along with Downfall, part of a new wave of German movies confronting the Nazi past The Double Life of Veronique . . . . .

DVD debut of the late Krysztof Kieslowski's extraordinary story of two women with the same name and appearance whose lives in different countries never quite meet The Libertine . . .

Typically virtuoso performance by Johnny Depp as outrageously debauched 17th century Earl of Rochester, whose poems and plays ridiculed the reigning Charles II The Producers . . .

Full-blown musical version of 1968 classic Mel Brooks comedy about a shyster producer who sets out to stage a Broadway flop to rip off gullible investors only for it to become a hit Danton . . . .

Gerard Depardieu as one-time ally of Robespierre who attempts to end the bloodshed when the French Revolution turns into a witch hunt of dissenters, brilliantly "lmed by great Polish director Andrzej Wajda