Arthur Bernède

Películas

La máscara del faraón
Novel
Una colección de objetos procedentes de una excavación arqueológica en Egipto se deposita en el famoso museo del Louvre en París, y mientras los expertos utilizan un escáner láser para determinar la edad de un sarcófago, un espíritu fantasmagórico se escapa y se abre camino hacia el sistema eléctrico del museo.
Judex
Screenplay
Favraux, un banquero sin escrúpulos, recibe una nota amenazadora, firmada por un tal Judex, que le pide que devuelva todo el dinero que ha robado. Favraux se niega y aparentemente muere después de un baile de disfraces. Sin embargo, sólo ha sido drogado por Judex y encerrado... (FILMAFFINITY)
La sombra del vengador
Novel
Bajo el reinado de Louis XV, el descontento entre el pueblo va en aumento. Entre los opositores se encuentra Mandrin, hostil con todo lo que oprime a los pobres. Decide convertirse en un proscrito y adquiere reputación de vengador y justiciero. Aunque ama y no olvida a su prometida, Antoinette, queda prendado de Myrtille, una joven gitana que se cruza en su camino. Mandrin deberá escoger entre el amor o la aventura y, fiel a su leyenda, decide inclinarse por seguir defendiendo a los oprimidos.
Mandrin - II - La tragédie d'un siècle
Novel
Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
La loupiote
Novel
Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.
Judex
Screenplay
Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap the financier's daughter.
Judex
Story
Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap the financier's daughter.
Méphisto
Novel
On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
L'Argent
Screenplay
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Les cinq sous de Lavarède
Screenplay
Belphégor
Novel
Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.
Jean Chouan
Screenplay
This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.
Les misérables
Writer
Jean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.
Surcouf
Writer
Based on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
Mandrin
Story
Directed by Henri Fescourt.
Mandrin
Screenplay
Directed by Henri Fescourt.
Ferragus
Screenplay
An adaptation of the first part of Balzac's History of the Thirteen, centered on the secret society of the Thirteen and helmed by René Navarre in the titular role of the former convict who became a sublime father.
Tao
Writer
Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young Soun who, due to a series of circumstances, will become heir to land that houses a large oil field. Tao , an evil mestizo, along with his minions, tries to get hold of these lands, terrorizing the locals by appearing disguised as the "spirit of evil".
Vidocq
Novel
François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.
La loupiote
Writer
L'aiglonne
Writer
The Man with Three Masks
Writer
The New Mission of Judex
Writer
A continuation of the film series "Judex" the masked fighter for justice.
Judex
Writer
When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)
Chantecoq
Novel
Melodramatic war drama based on a novel by M.A. Bernière, directed by M. Pouctal, conceived as popular propaganda. When it turns out that plant director M. Dalibert has suddenly disappeared, Chantecoq is charged with the investigation. Through creative means he succeeds to unravel the case, involving two German spies looking for a secret recipe for a new French weapon of war.