Simone Genevois

Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the film's title. She is as wild as their lionesses and, in a single night the father is injured and the son attempts suicide. Only when Rosita leaves the circus can things get back to normal.

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.

나폴레옹의 어린 소년 시절, 사관학교에서 천재적인 용병술로 전쟁 놀이를 승리로 이끄는 에피소드를 효과적인 접사와 이중 인화 미쟝센으로 인상 깊게 묘사하는 장면에서 영화는 시작 된다. 나폴레옹의 고향이자 프랑스, 영국, 이탈리아, 스페인의 접점이기에 늘 국제적으로 쟁점이 됐던 작은 섬 코르시카에서의 성장 과정을 거쳐 쉬이 현실과 타협하지 않는 과감성, 프랑스를 조국으로 인지하면서 생겨난 애국심과 민족주의적 성향, 정확한 판단력과 기회를 놓치지 않는 결단력으로 격변기 프랑스의 동력으로 자리매김 되기까지 나폴레옹의 영웅적, 인간적 내면 세계를 깊이 있게 묘사한다. 그 뿐 아니라 프랑스 혁명, 1793년 영국-이탈리아-스페인 연합군과의 트론 전쟁, 당통의 사형, 로베스 삐에르의 공포정치와 공화제 폭정에 고통받는 민중들, 정치 역학의 소용돌이에서 부침을 거듭하는 나폴레옹의 역경과 국민공회에 의한 최고 사령관 추대, 그의 처 죠세핀이라는 인물의 조망까지 당대의 상황을 아벨 강스는 탁월하게 담아냈다.

Film composed of 10 episodes: 1.- L'Ami felon. 2.- Le secret de L'etang. 3.- L'Ambition au service de la haine. 4.- L'Implacable verdict. 5.- Le Pont vivant. 6.- La Voix du sang. 7.- Les Caprices du destin. 8.- En Champ clos. 9.- Les Angoisses de Corradin. 10.- Le Triomphe de L'amour.

Widow Simone d'Argentières lives in Neuilly with her son Jean and her friend Hélène Castillon, whose brother Georges wants to marry Simone. Both the chauffeur Pistol and the servant Malar are in love with the maid Prunette. Georges makes a deal with businessman Paramine in the hope of ending his financial troubles while Albert D'Amentières proposes to his sister-in-law Simone who declines arguing that she does not wish to give Jean a step-father. Hélène overhears this and repeats it to Georges who says in front of the servants: "What a shame she has a son'. Little Jean leaves for a vacation with old father Pailloux at the country. Gypsies settle near by and their leader Luigi meets Paramine who is here under the assumed name of Simon and gives him money. The next day, little Jean disappears.

Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.

Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has ever told her about the strange circumstances in which her mother lost her life. In fact, fifteen years earlier, following a hunting party, Mme de Sergeac had been found in her bedroom, killed by gunshot. Beside her, her husband, wounded and unconscious. Now Simone is fifteen. She is in love with Michel Mignier, but she still does not know the truth. It is Hermance, the governess, who will the reveal the whole thing ...

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.