The pool owner
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Villequin
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
Marco
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
Rolf Holzer dit 'Le chinois'
Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.
Pablo Gonzales
Gauvin
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.
cabinetmaker (uncredited)
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
Léon
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)
파리의 생 제르맹 드 프레에 있는 시인 까페. 지적이며 미남인 시인 오르페와 술의 시인인 세제스트는 동료 시인들과 자주 이 까페에 드나든다. 어느날 검은 머리, 검은 옷에 진주 목걸이를 걸친 죽음의 여왕이 롤스로이스를 타고 이곳에 나타난다. 소름이 끼칠 정도로 싸늘한 분위기가 감돌지만 그녀는 매우 아름답다. 죽음의 여왕은 부하 두 명으로 하여금 술에 취한 시인 세제스트를 오토바이로 치여 죽이게 한다. 때마침 그 광경을 목격한 오르페, 여왕은 오르페와 함께 이미 숨진 세제스트를 싣고 죽음의 나라로 달린다. 당연히 병원으로 가는 줄 알았던 오르페지만 간 곳은 폐허가 된 별장이었다. 오르페는 죽음의 여왕이 세제스트를 불러일으켜 거울 속으로 사라지는 모습을 보게된다. 얼떨결에 오르페도 따라가다 겨울에 부딪혀 정신을 잃고 쓰러진다. 다시 의식을 찾았을 때는 낡은 별장의 흔적은 간 곳이 없고 황량한 들판에 자신이 쓰러져 있음을 알게 되었다. 오르페는 다시 생의 나라로 돌아오지만 정체를 알 수 없는 매력적인 여왕의 모습 때문에 사랑하는 아내였던 유리디스마저 돌보지 않고,오로지 자동차의 라디오에서 흘러나오는 나라의 암호에만 귀를 기울이는 것이었다. 죽음의 여왕은 이번에는 오르페를 파멸시키라는 임무를 띠게 되지만, 자기도 모르는 사이에 오르페를 사랑하게 된다. 어두운 밤이 되면 슬그머니 죽음의 나라로부터 내려와, 오르페의 침실에 나타나서 그의 자는 모습을 지켜보기도 한다. 이윽고 오르페에 대한 사랑의 감정을 이기지 못한 여왕은 인간들만이 느끼는 질투를 느끼게 되어 부인 유리디스를 살해한다. 그러나 여왕의 행동은 죽음의 나라에서는 용납할 수 없는 위반 행위였다. 이 때문에 그녀는 재판을 받게 된다. 여왕의 차를 운전하는 외르트비츠로부터 소식을 전해들은 오르페는 그의 안내를 받아 거울속의 나라로 들어간다. 이번에는 거울을 녹이는 장갑을 끼고서. 죽음의 나라에서 재판이 열리고 있었다.
The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
Arnold
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
Children imprisoned during pre-war France decide to escape.
Un des commandos
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.
