Serge Piménoff

Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from another. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleaguered Jean Valjean. Arrested for a petty crime, Valjean spends years 20 in the brutal French penal system. Even upon his release, his trail is dogged by relentless Inspector Javert. Valjean's efforts to create a new life for himself despite the omnipresence of Javert is meticulously detailed in this film, which utilizes several episodes from the Hugo original that had hitherto never been dramatized. Originally released as a single film, Les Miserables was usually offered as a two-parter outside of France.

Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.

Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.

Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.

"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a history of the watch-thievery business, told in anecdotal fashion.

Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.

A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.

The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

세상과 어울리지 못한 채 혼자 지내는 중년의 이르. 한편, 동네에서 한 여인이 살해당하는 사건이 발생하고, 모든 사람들이 여인의 죽음에 대해 떠들어대지만, 이르만은 침묵한다. 그날 저녁, 연인을 대신해 감옥에 갔던 알리스가 막 출소해 마을에 도착하고, 그녀는 연인 알프레드와 재회한다. 이르가 사는 집 건너편에서 살게 된 알리스. 창 너머로 우연히 알리스를 본 이르는 마음의 동요를 느끼고, 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 그런데 살인사건을 조사하던 경찰은 사람들과 어울리지 못하는 이르를 의심하기 시작하고, 진실을 알게 된 이르는 어떤 이유에선지 침묵을 선택한다. 심리추리소설의 대가 조르주 심농의 소설을 각색한 작품. 살인사건을 둘러싼 이야기 속에서 인간 내면의 추악함과 함께 깊은 고독과 뒤틀린 사랑을 동시에 담아내고 있다.

Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and Thérèse Cadifon each carry out their own investigation.

Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smuggled, the altercation between the two men turns to drama. While the first falls and drowns, the second flees. Maloin, instead of warning the police, decides to dive in and recover the suitcase...which contains more than 3 million in small denominations! That's when the trouble begins...

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.

In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in ignorance of his profession. She is torn from her environment and saved from tragedy by a young journalist who loves her.

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital. - Written by jsanchez from IMDB.com

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.

A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.

A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism (IMDb).

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

황태자 루돌프는 사회주의자들을 가까이하고 방탕한 생활을 하다가 젊은 남작부인 마리아 베체라를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 두 사람의 밀회가 거듭되자 황제의 심복 타페 백작이 두 사람을 떼어놓으려 하고 황제도 루돌프를 변방으로 보낸다. 루돌프는 사랑을 위해 제위 후계권까지 포기하려하는데...

A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.

When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.

In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.

An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.

한 쌍의 남녀가 진흙투성이 길 위에서 사랑을 나누고 있다. 거리가 시끄러워지고 결국 남자는 체포된다. 남자는 수갑을 찬 채 끌려 가면서도 오로지 자신이 갈망하는 여인만을 생각한다. 영화는 마치 다큐멘터리처럼 전갈의 생태를 묘사하며 시작한다. 그리고 산적들, 사제, 군인, 관료가 차례로 등장하고, 영화의 주인공으로 보이는 한 쌍의 젊은 남녀가 사랑을 벌인다. 이들의 사랑이 부르주아들에 의해 끊임없이 방해받는다는 것이 이 영화의 주요한 이야기인 셈인데, 영화의 마지막 부분은 영뚱하게도 사드 후작의 소설 <소돔의 120일>의 후일담으로 넘어간다. 여기에 등장하는 4명의 '패륜아' 중의 한명은 예수의 모습을 하고 있고, 영화의 마지막 이미지는 사막에 버려진 십자가이다. 이러한 이야기 사이사이에 우스꽝스럽고 기괴한 부르주아의 삶의 단편들이 끼어들고, 자막과 대사, 음악은 이 영화의 공격대상이 무엇인지를 숨김없이 드러내고 있다. <황금시대>는 일부 좌파 지식인을 제외한 모든 이들의 격렬한 분노와 항의를 불러일으켰다. 가장 문제가 된 것은 예수를 사드 소설의 주인공으로 묘사한 신성 모독적인 부분이었다. 영화가 상영되는 극장에 몰려온 극우단체 회원들은 영사막을 찢었고, 찢어진 영사막 위에 영화는 며칠간 계속 상영되었다. 결국 들끓는 여론과 카톨릭 교회의 압력에 따라 파리시 당국은 상영 금지 조치를 내리고 프린트를 압수하였다.

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.