Marcelle Pradot

The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.

1920년대 파리의 금융가, 은행가 사카르는 숙적 군데르만 때문에 궁지에 몰린다. 사카르는 증자를 시도하고, 은행의 주가를 올리기 위해 인기 비행사 아믈랭을 끌어들여 남미에서의 석유 시추 사업을 추진한다. 군데르만은 사카르의 계획을 반대하지만, 훗날 무기로 쓸 요량으로 사카르의 주식을 몰래 사둔다. 한편, 아믈랭이 비행을 떠난 사이, 사카르는 그의 아내 린을 유혹하려 한다. 에밀 졸라가 쓴 동명소설을 각색하였으며, 정점에 이른 레르비에의 역량을 볼 수 있다. 웅장한 세트를 누비는 화려한 카메라워크는 지금 보아도 탄복하지 않을 수 없다. 디지털 복원판 상영. (2017 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 마지막 침묵: 1928년의 기적, 위대한 무성영화의 기억)

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.

A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains emotionally aloof and heartlessly taunts them. When she is told that Norsen has killed himself because of her, she shows no feelings. At her next concert she is booed by an audience outraged at her coldness. She visits the vault in which Norsen's body lies, and as she admits her feelings for him she discovers that he is alive; his death was feigned. Djorah is jealous of their new relationship and causes Claire to be bitten by a poisonous snake. Her body is brought to Norsen's laboratory, where he, by means of his scientific inventions, restores Claire to life.

Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.

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A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.

Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.

Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.

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