Based on the model of documentary fiction (alternating period films, interviews and re-enactments with actors), the film begins on September 8, 1961 with the failure of the Pont-sur-Seine attack on a road convoy carrying Charles de Gaulle, then President of the Republic, and continues with the slow preparation, the occurrence and the consequences of the Petit-Clamart attack on August 22, 1962.
Para Pierre Brochant y sus amigos el miércoles es el día de los idiotas. La idea es simple: cada uno debe llevar consigo un idiota. El que consiga llevar a la cena el idiota más espectacular de todos es el ganador. Esa noche, Brochant está pletóric: ha encontrado una auténtica joya. Un idiota redomado. François Pignon, un chupatintas del Ministerio de Finanzas, es un hombre apasionado por sus construcciones hechas a base de cerillas. Lo que Brochant ignora es que Pignon es un auténtico gafe, un maestro en el arte de provocar catástrofes.
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
