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Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
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Two suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reason why two previous tenants was pushed to hang themselves at that particular place.
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David, un guía de caravanas que, perseguido por los pieles rojas, llega al fuerte Benson donde es recibido con virotes de bienvenida, pero no obstante, es detenido por la Policía Montada, acusado de criminal. Todo resulta una audaz idea del Mayor para convencer a David que escolte un cargamento de oro. Para él comienzan los problemas fuera del fuerte, perseguido fuera del fuerte, perseguido incansablemente por los indios, cuando el valiosísimo cargamento está en peligro...
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A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad and Tita.
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Una joven americana que estudia arte en París no se decide entre quedarse o regresar a su casa. Ella conoce a un chico francés y se enamoran, pero su padre, que es rico, llega a París para llevarla de vuelta a los Estados Unidos.
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Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
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En junio de 1940, en un campo de prisioneros del nordeste de Francia, tres soldados planean escapar y volver a la vida normal. Son un cabo de clase media, un intelectual miope y un obrero. Después del fracaso de su primer intento de fuga, volverán a intentarlo una y otra vez. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…
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Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.
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From his childhood in the lowlands of northern France to his death in Nice, a look at the life of painter Matisse: his early education, his apprenticeship at the Beaux-Arts and his decades-long career as a painter, sculptor, and draftsman.
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El Zar Alejandro II (1855-1881) toma como amante a la bella estudiante Katia, lo que supone un fulgurante ascenso social para la joven, que llega incluso a recibir el título de princesa. En la corte del zar, donde las intrigas se suceden sin tregua y Katia se convertirá en el epicentro de una de ellas cuyo objetivo es el asesinato del zar de todas las Rusias.
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Además de candidato a la presidencia de Europa, Etienne Alexis es un científico que trabaja en la inseminación artificial como método para mejorar las relaciones sociales y realiza terapias para eliminar la pasión. Comprometido con una condesa, Etienne desea celebrarlo con un picnic. El sonido de la flauta de un pastor en el templo de la diosa Diana, provoca un impetuoso viento que libera la pasión de los personajes y destruye el orden establecido. Así, Alexis, en contra de sus principios se fuga con la campesina Nénette.
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'El testamento del doctor Cordelier' está basada en la novela, de Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. La intriga que se presenta está dirigida por el director Jean Reinor. El doctor Cordelier, interpretado por Jean-Louis Barrault, un famoso psiquiatra, le confía a Maitre Joly, su abogado, un testamento a favor de Opale, un individuo siniestro, sádico y asesino. Cordelier presenta a Opale como un paciente al que le cuenta sus experiencias, pero pronto sabremos que Opale y Cordelier no son lo que parece.
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Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
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A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
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Moving from contemporary images of Paris in the 1950s to old photographs and documents, this short film evokes the heroic radical Commune of 1871 which was violently suppressed, and it's legacy today.
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Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
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One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his class, Bernard Cormiere.
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"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...
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Una pequeña ciudad de España, octubre de 1955. Isabel, una soñadora de treinta y cinco años que se siente fracasada porque aún no se ha casado, se convierte en el nuevo objetivo de un grupo de bromistas sin alma.
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Antes de la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), Elena (Ingrid Bergman), una bella princesa polaca, se enamora en París de un político francés miembro de un partido radical y de un general. Al mismo tiempo un oficial suspira también por el amor de su alteza.
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Ángela está casada con el doctor Valerio. Vive en una pequeña ciudad de Córcega. Un día sufre un mareo en la calle y llama a la fábrica en la que su marido cura a un obrero que ha sufrido un accidente de trabajo. Ángela no puede entender que su marido se ocupe tanto de los pobres y la deje a ella abandonada. Al ver a su mujer en tal estado, le aconseja que se vaya con su familia a Niza.
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During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
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During WW2, three prisoners escape from a labor camp.
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The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.
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Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.
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Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
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A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
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Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
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Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
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Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un soldado norteamericano vuelve a la zona francesa, donde había luchado contra los nazis y robado una reliquia de una iglesia. De forma inesperada se verá envuelto en una caso de asesinato.
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A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.
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Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
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Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a deadly trap.
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A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house.
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Michel ha robado a su patrón, el señor Bellanger para conseguir esos recursos que le tenían que permitir casarse con Juliette. Una vez encarcelado, mientras duerme en su celda, se despierta y ve que las puertas están abiertas y conducen a un extraño pueblo en el que sus habitantes han perdido su memoria. Ahí vuelve a encontrarse con Juliette, también afectada por ese mal, y parece estar´conforme en casarse con un hombre rico.
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A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
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Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
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"Jack el Negro" es un barco cuyo capitán es un contrabandista que, harto de ser perseguido por la marina española, está deseando dejar su oficio. Un día, el barco recoge a un grupo de refugiados políticos cuyo navío ha naufragado. Entre los pasajeros está la bella Ingrid, que se enamora del capitán.
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Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
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This Government-commissioned documentary was intended to reflect the modernisation of French industry. However, in Franju’s hands it became an ode to fire and a fascinating portrayal of industrial architecture.
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World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
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A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.
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Adaptación del drama "Romeo y Julieta", de Shakespeare. En Venecia, dos jóvenes van a revivir el drama de Shakespeare: Angelo, un vidriero de Murano, y Georgia, hija de un magistrado fascista.
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An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
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The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
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Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
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Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
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In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.
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A budding romance between two toy dancers is put into dangers when the boy is conscripted into the toy army.
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Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
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Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
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París, 1945. Tras la liberación de la ciudad por los Aliados, Jean Diego se encuentra con un vagabundo que le predice que se enamorará de una bella mujer, pero que las próximas horas que va a vivir serán dramáticas. La profecía se hace realidad y Jean conoce a Marlou, una joven cuyo matrimonio la hace infeliz.
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Una familia pasa un domingo a orillas del Sena. Mientras los hombres duermen la siesta, unos jóvenes remeros invitan a la madre y a la hija a dar un paseo en barca; un paseo que se convertirá en algo más que una inocente excursión fluvial. Mediometraje de 40 minutos basado en un relato de Guy de Maupassant, en el que Renoir hace un homenaje a su padre, el pintor impresionista Pierre Auguste Renoir. Sus cuadros son mostrados en el film para suscitar una reflexión sobre las relaciones entre cine y pintura.
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París, 1820. Dos jóvenes artistas, Baptiste Debureau y Frédéric Lemâitre, debutan en el teatro de los Funámbulos y entablan amistad. Un día, Garance, una misteriosa y atractiva mujer, irrumpe en sus vidas. Mientras que el tímido Baptiste no se atreve a declararle su amor, Frédéric la convierte en su amante. Sin embargo, al estar implicada en una serie de crímenes, la mujer desaparece.
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A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
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1939, París y Sologne. Un aviador, enamorado de una mujer de mundo, no respeta la regla del juego que consiste en salvar las apariencias en una sociedad dividida fundamentalmente en dos clases: los señores y los criados.
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Inspirada en la novela homónima de E. Zola. El maquinista de tren Lantier (Jean Gabin) es un hombre solitario marcado por el estigma hereditario de la locura. No puede reprimir su misoginia y su trato con las mujeres es muy violento. Solo es feliz mientras conduce su locomotora que cubre el trayecto desde Le Havre hasta París. Su gran error será hacerse amante de Sévérine (Simone Simon), que querría inducirlo a matar a su marido.
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French stage favorite Lya Gauty made her screen debut in 1938's La Goualeuse (The Street Singer). The story concerns a poverty-stricken vagabond (Jean Martinelli) who supports himself by singing for pennies in a rough section of town. Only the local barkeeper knows that the vagabond is actually the illegitimate son of a prosperous and highly respected banker (Constant Remy). One would think that the film's dramatic climax would consist of a tearful reunion between father and son. Instead, this scene occurs in the middle of the picture; the rest of the film is a melodramatic melange of high emotionalism and low melodrama, culminating in the boy's suicide. Though billed first, Lya Gauty has an almost peripheral role as the hero's long-suffering sweetheart who sings at the drop of a hat and frequently brings her own hat.
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La Revolución Francesa vista a través de los ojos de sus participantes directos (desde los campesinos hasta el propio Luis XVI) es el tema de este drama de época dirigido por el maestro Jean Renoir.
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Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Una obra maestra del cine mundial sobre la camaradería y las relaciones humanas que retrata el día a día de unos prisioneros franceses en un campo de concentración alemán durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Cuando llegan al campo dos oficiales de la aviación francesa, son informados por sus compañeros de barracón de que están excavando un túnel para poder escapar de allí.
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When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
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When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
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Batala es un truhán que dirige una imprenta ruinosa en París. Obligado por una deuda, comienza a imprimir unas historias del Oeste escritas por uno de sus empleados, Amédée Lange. Acosado por sus acreedores, sin embargo, se ve obligado finalmente a huir de la ciudad, y aprovechando un aparatoso accidente ferroviario, decide simular su propia muerte. Al conocer la noticia, sus empleados acuerdan formar una cooperativa, que empieza a dar beneficios gracias precisamente a los relatos de Lange. (FILMAFFINITY)
