Le patron de la péniche
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
Al igual que la novela de Sand, la película tiene elementos góticos, caballerescos, melodramáticos y detectivescos. La acción transcurre antes de la Revolución Francesa y muestra el ingreso a la adultez de Bernard de Mauprat, un noble huérfano, criado por aristócratas renegados y criminales, que es salvado de la horca por su prima Edmée y por su padre, el Caballero Hubert de Mauprat. El regreso de Bernard provocará tensiones desconocidas en el seno de la familia Mauprat, a cuyos refinados modales querrá adaptarse sólo para ganar el corazón de su prima Edmée (prometida del Caballero de La Marche) después de haber ganado ya su promesa de fidelidad bajo una cierta amenaza de violación. (Fuente: Wikipedia) (FILMAFFINITY)
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
