Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia.
Fleichet
After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
Loisel
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
Capester
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
Peyton Farquhar
This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird."
Peyton Farquhar
A southerner in the American Civil War is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when the noose suddenly breaks. After he plunges into the water below, he must find a way to free himself, evade enemy forces and flee to safety.
Gaston (uncredited)
폴로랑스는 기업체 사장인 남편 시몽을 살해하고 정부 줄리앙과 도피하기 위해 완전범죄를 노려 일을 꾸민다. 줄리앙은 토요일 늦은 밤 로프를 이용하여 사장실로 올라가 권총으로 남편을 살해한 뒤 자살로 위장하는 것까지는 성공했다. 그러나 지동차로 현장을 벗어나려 하는 순간, 창문에 걸린 로프를 보고 다시 사장닛로 가서 로프를 처리하고 엘리베이터로 내려오는 그 시간에 사건은 급진전되고 만다. 건물 관리인이 순시를 하다가 밤이 늦어 엘리베이터의 전원을 꺼버린 것이다. 때마침 밖에 세워둔 줄리앙의 시보레 자동차를 훔쳐타고 드라이브를 떠나버린 건달 청년의 살인사건이 겹치면서 영화는 복잡한 전개양상을 보인다. 이때 등장한 파리 경시청의 민완형사 세리에는 이 두 살인사건의 전모를 파헤쳐가면서 시몽의 살인범을 밝혀 내는데….
