In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer.
La fée aux lunettes
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.
Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is very authoritarian. Arlette befriends Marie, and arranges her sentimental affairs, which were at an impasse.
친구 사이인 자노, 샤를로, 탱탱, 자크, 마리오는 일자리를 찾고 있는 가난한 노동자들이다. 그런데 다섯 명이 함께 산 복권이 운 좋게도 당첨되어 매우 큰돈을 얻게 된다. 머리를 맞댄 끝에 친구들은 함께 강가의 허름한 건물을 사서 노천카페를 열기로 한다. 하지만 얼마 지나지 않아 친구들 사이에 균열이 생기기 시작한다. 뒤비비에가 각본에 참여했으며, 당대 사회적 위기 속에서도 희망을 잃지 않는 사람들과 삶에의 의지를 그리고 있다. 직접적인 정치적 언급이 없음에도 인민 전선을 상징하는 작품으로 여겨진다.
