Rachel Devirys

폴은 자신을 과보호하는 누나 엘리자베트와 병든 어머니와 함께 살고 있다. 어느 날 폴이 눈싸움에서 다치게 된 후, 엘리자베트는 그를 돌보기 위해 같은 침실에서 지내기 시작한다. 두 사람은 자신들의 침실을 극장처럼 꾸미고 친구 제라르가 지켜보는 가운데 이상한 게임을 벌인다. 어머니가 죽은 후 파리로 돌아온 엘리자베트는 부유한 미국인과 결혼하지만 남편은 자동차 사고로 곧 죽고 만다. 어느 날 친구인 아가테와 폴이 서로 사랑에 빠진 사실을 알게 된 엘리자베트는 이 두 사람을 떼어놓으려 거짓말을 하는데...

Rémi sees his marriage troubled by a scandal caused by his former mistress. He takes refuge with his godmother while his wife organizes her revenge.

A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.

In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.

Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has not always been beyond reproach, he refuses to marry her and returns to his castle in the company of his sister who, happier than him, has met a man worthy of being in Paris. love.

Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.

A wife who suspects (wrongly) her husband of infidelity, makes the decision to find herself a lover... Finally, morality will be saved.

General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequently, she meets Henri de Cassel, so different from her drunkard husband, becomes his mistress and agrees to flee with him. She is surprised by her husband who, dead drunk, shoots the young man's reflection in the mirror.

Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.

Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.

A gambler has the same name as a billionaire. Suddenly he gets lucky, finds love and wins 24 million.

Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling him to God, the sight of all the different sects worshipping in that ancient city only serves to embitter him and deepen his unbelief. One day, wandering in the country, he loses his way and stops to ask directions at a small house. The inhabitants are a poor but devout family whose daughter, Ruth, revives his broken heart. At the risk of losing her, he confesses to her his loss of faith, and she gently declares that meditation on the Gospels will heal him. He sorrowfully tells her that he wishes he could believe as she does, but it is impossible.

아내를 잃은 피에르는 얼마 후에 홀로 딸을 키우는 잔느와 재혼한다. 그러나 여전히 엄마를 그리워하는 아들 장은 엄마의 자리를 빼앗으려는 잔느를 적대한다. 어느 날, 잔느가 엄마의 옷으로 잔느의 딸과 여동생의 옷을 만들어주려 하자 장은 분노에 휩싸여 옷을 갈기갈기 찢어버린다. 무성영화시대의 리얼리즘 영화를 대표하는 작품. 프랑스의 시적 리얼리즘을 확립한 자크 페데는 스위스 현지의 자연 풍광을 배경으로 인물들의 심리와 정서를 솔직하면서도 날카롭게 그려냈다.

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.

Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli.

Early musical based on the popular song of the same name.