Partially found 1979 French Film from Klaus Nomi music video

Hi everyone. I'm afraid I don't have a useful contribution, but I thought you might still like to know - I was able to find Michel Fano's email address on an old archived website, and I asked him about "Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été". This was his reply:


The man is almost 95 years old, so this wasn't too surprising. I had hoped that he of all people might at least have a copy of the soundtrack, which could one day be combined with the CNC's silent copy to restore the film as it originally existed - but I guess it's not to be.

I'm not very knowledgeable about copyright law, but I've read that the Berne Convention protects cinematographic works for fifty years after creation. Does this mean that the film will enter the public domain in 2029 and that the CNC will then be free to distribute their copy?

(BTW, that Rapidshare link is almost certainly a dead end - it looks like a post generated by a bot, which was probably coded to grab random film titles from IMDb and make thousands of fake pirate links to drive people to a site where they can either get infected by viruses or generate ad revenue.)