Bailiff
文豪ハーディの名作を、ポランスキーが映像化したメロドラマ。19世紀末、ドーセット地方の貧農の娘テスは遠縁のダーバビル家に奉公に出される。その息子にかどわかされ私生児を孕んだ彼女だが、実家に戻って生んだ子はわずか数週間で死んでしまう。後に働きに出た農場で牧師の息子と美しい恋に落ち結婚するが、テスの過去を初夜に知った彼はそのまま外国に去っていく。流転の人生の果てに再び彼とめぐりあうテスだが、もはや新たな選択は破滅を意味した……。
M. de Vardes
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Alexandre
A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.
Thanks to a bit of string-pulling by his aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelles, a young recruit who has blue blood in his veins, hopes to go through a nice and comfortable military service. Unfortunately he becomes Corporal Bourrache's pet aversion. Nevertheless, against all expectations, Jean ends up taking a liking for military life.
Un passager
Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them.
