ルネ・クレマン監督が1952年に手がけ、同年のベネチア国際映画祭で金獅子賞、アカデミー賞で名誉賞（後の外国語映画賞）などに輝いた、映画史上の不朽の名作。ナルシソ・イエペスのギター演奏による主題曲「愛のロマンス」の哀愁に満ちた旋律も広く知られる。第2次世界大戦中のフランス。ドイツ軍によるパリ侵攻から逃れる途中、爆撃により両親と愛犬を亡くした5歳の少女ポーレットは、ひとりさまよううちに11歳の農民の少年ミシェルと出会う。ミシェルから死んだものは土に埋め、お墓を作ることを教わったポーレットは、子犬を埋め、十字架を供える。これをきっかけに、お墓を作って十字架を供える遊びに夢中になった2人は、教会や霊柩車からも十字架を持ち出してしまうが……。日本では53年に初公開。2018年9月、デジタルリマスター版でリバイバル公開（パンドラ配給）。2020年8月には、人気声優による名画吹き替えプロジェクト「NEW ERA MOVIES」で新たに制作された吹き替え版（ポーレット役＝戸松遥／ミシェル・ドレ役＝小松未可子、ジョゼフ・ドレ役＝稲田徹）で公開される（モービー・ディック配給）。
Le jeune acteur
A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in the studio, he is forced to bring it up to his apartment. The police, the Humane Society and the government get involved.
Oscar (uncredited)
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
Toni (uncredited)
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Caddy
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Arsene, the telephone operator
Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, Blanche, the nurse he marries, proves to be a shrew. One day, a miracle happens : Michèle, a young orphan and fellow-worker gradually develops tender feelings for him. But will Robert be able to overcome his mediocrity and grasp this unexpected opportunity to find happiness?
Léopold
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.
Germain
Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.
Rousseau
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Doudou
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
