Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia.
Fleichet
After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
Loisel
En los años de prohibición, los "corredores de ron" viajan a través del Mar Caribe con el licor prohibido escapando de los buques patrulla. En un de las carreras, uno de los contrabandistas se enamora de una actriz durante la filmación de una película.
Capester
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
Peyton Farquhar
This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird."
Peyton Farquhar
Un espía del bando confederado de la Guerra de Secesión americana vive sus últimos momentos antes de ser conducido ante la horca.
Gaston (uncredited)
Julien Tavernier, héroe de la guerra de Indochina, trabaja para el industrial Simon Carala, y es el amante de su esposa, Florence. Para poder vivir juntos, los amantes deciden matar al marido de modo que parezca un suicidio, pero ocurre algo que no estaba previsto.
