Maedeli la brèche is a 1980 Belgian short film written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael. The short film was shot in 1980 in Belgium with a Super 35 camera. The film starred Nico d'Oreye, Julie Dubart, Colette Forton, Marie-José Mgank and Jean-François Dufranne. The original music score was written by Pierre Van Dormael, Jaco's brother. Van Dormael wrote the film while he was a student at the INSAS in Brussels.
^ "Maedeli-la-brèche (1980)" (in French). Cinemotions.com. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
, 1h53 Réalisé parJaco Van Dormael OrigineBelgique GenresDrame, Fantastique, Comédie, Fantasy, Musical, Humour noir ThèmesReligion ActeursCatherine Deneuve, Benoît Poelvoorde, Pili Groyne, Yolande Moreau, François Damiens, Serge Larivière Note70% Alors que Dieu passe ses journées à rendre la vie des gens infernale, Ea, sa fille, souhaite punir son père pour son comportement. Pour libérer les humains de la peur de la mort, elle dévoile par SMS la date de décès de chaque individu et bloque l'ordinateur de Dieu, qui lui servait à manipuler les mortels. Sur les conseils de son frère J.-C., elle part alors à la recherche de six nouveaux apôtres pour écrire un « tout Nouveau Testament ».
GenresDrame, Action ThèmesSport, Arts martiaux, Kung-fu ActeursLo Lieh, Chang Yi, Lung Fong Note64% Meng Hu (Don Wong) and Capt. Chow Lung (Lo Lieh) are local supercops who are cracking down on crime with a vengeance. That is, until several fighters get the drop on Chow who ends up dead. Meng blames himself and retires from crime fighting to become a pathetic drunk, drowning in shame. He finds work at a brothel for a time, until a patron's abuse of one of the girls causes him to interfere despite his refusal to fight. After being wounded, he stumbles to the doorstep of a martial arts school run by Magistrate Chen (Chui Chung Hei). Hoping to stay away from conflict, Meng finds work there, but trouble finds him anyway. A white-haired master named Chung Tung (Chang Yi) tries to bribe Chen into letting opium smugglers into the city. Chen refuses and has acupuncture needles thrust into him that will kill him unless removed by Chung Tung who hopes to control the magistrate. Pushed to the limit, Meng finally comes up with a plan to help beat Chung Tung and save Chen. Sadly, Chen believes his son and daughter are giving into Chung Tung and he removes the needles himself. With nothing holding them back, Meng and Chen's offspring leap into action to take out this pack of drug pushers.