Director
En el film se da vida a un joven diputado, el cual un día decide entrar en la Masonería con la idea de, entre otras cosas, mejorar socialmente tanto en su vida privada como en el mundo de la política. Durante el transcurso de la misma el joven se va dando cuenta que en el interior de la Logia sus hermanos se dedican a conspirar junto a los judíos en el deseo de enfrentar a Francia con Alemania.
Dialogue
Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.
Editor
Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the baby’s impending arrival as a gift, so long as its paternity remains a secret. Fanny and Panisse wed, but after her baby’s birth, Marius returns unexpectedly and demands what he believes is still his.
Editor
En la casa de de los Fellavoine, el niño, Toto, se niega a tomar su purgante para deseperación de sus padres, que esperan la visita del importante Sr. Chouillox, cuya mediación le permitirá a los Fellavoine un venta importante.
A man following the hearse (uncredited)
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.
