Armand Thirard

Armand Thirard

출생 : 1899-10-25, Mantes-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Oise [now Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines], France

사망 : 1973-11-12

약력

Armand Thirard was a French cinematographer. He worked on more than a hundred and twenty films during his career. (Wikipedia)

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Armand Thirard

참여 작품

황야의 산 세바스찬
Director of Photography
1746년 멕시코, 현상수배로 쫓기던 리온 알라스트라이는 급한 김에 성역인 프란체스코수도성당에 뛰어들어 정부군으로부터 벗어난다. 요셉신부는 알라스트라이를 당국에 인도하는 것을 거부하고 형벌로써 그를 이곳에서 멀리 떨어진 마을 세바스찬으로 보내기로 한다. 수도사의 복장으로 변장한 알라스트라이는 요셉신부와 함께 멕시코사막을 가로질러 황량한 마을에 도착하지만, 그 곳은 야키족 인디언들에 의하여 약탈당하고 있었다. 그들에 의하여 요셉신부가 죽으면서, 마을로 되돌아온 주민들은 알라스트라이를 성직자로 오인한다. 야키족과 손을 잡은 혼혈인 테클로는 마을사람들에게 그들의 신앙을 포기하지 않으면 더욱 거센 인디언의 공격이 있을 거라며 협박한다. 알라스트라이가 성직자가 아니라는 것을 알고 있는 마을의 한 소녀 키니타는 알라스트라이가 교수형을 당할 위기에서 구해주고 그에게 마을의 정신적인 지도자가 되어 달라고 설득한다. 알라스트라이는 농부들이 그들의 농작물을 위하여 관개시설을 확보하기 위해 댐을 건설하는데 협력을 하고 야키족이 다시 공격할 걸 예상하여 무기와 탄약을 얻기 위해 한 때 자신의 연인이었던 사령관의 아내 펠리치아를 움직인다. 마침내 인디언들이 마을을 기습하지만, 그들은 용감하게 반항하는 농민들과 알라스트라이의 댐 폭파에 의하여 대패하고 만다. 그리고 알라스트라이는 테클로와의 대결에서 그를 죽인다. 잠시 후, 정부군이 산세바스찬을 위해 진짜 성직자와 함께 도착하자, 알라스트라이에게 감사하게 생각하는 마을 사람들은 그와 키니타가 도주할 수 있게 돕는다
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven
Camera Operator
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
Camera Operator
A Trap for Cinderella
Director of Photography
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
Marco the Magnificent
Director of Photography
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Trouble Among Widows
Director of Photography
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Director of Photography
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
Don't Tempt the Devil
Director of Photography
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
3 Fables of Love
Director of Photography
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Love on a Pillow
Director of Photography
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Ladies' Man
Director of Photography
A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Director of Photography
Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel. Part 2.
이수
Director of Photography
실내장식가인 폴라(잉그리드 버그만)는 트럭매매를 하는 부유한 신사 로제(이브 몽땅)와 5년째 연인사이지만 둘은 결혼을 하지 않는다. 이유는 로제가 바람둥이기 때문이다. 하지만 폴라는 바람둥이 로제를 이해하려 노력하지만 어느 날 의뢰인의 아파트에 갔다가 그 집 아들인 멋진 젊은 청년을 만나게 된다. 첫눈에 폴라에게 호감을 느낀 청년은 폴라에게 접근한다.
진실
Director of Photography
22살 아가씨 도미니크는 애인 질베르를 살해한 혐의로 재판을 받는다. 그녀가 어떤 이유로 전도유망한 지휘자를 죽였느냐에 대한 의견이 분분한 가운데, 검사는 도미니크가 명백히 계획적으로 살인을 저질렀으므로 사형을 언도해야 한다고 주장한다. 재판이 이어지면서 도미니크와 질베르 그리고 도미니크의 언니이자 질베르의 연인이었던 애니, 세 사람을 둘러싼 진실들이 모습을 드러낸다. 클루조의 치밀한 연출 아래 사랑의 지독한 진실을 파헤치는 법정 드라마. 브리짓 바르도의 열연이 돋보이며, 검사와 변호사 역을 맡은 폴 뫼리스와 샤를 바넬의 대결도 불꽃이 튄다. (영화의 전당 - 오래된 극장 2016)
모데라토 칸타빌레
Director of Photography
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.
Babette Goes to War
Director of Photography
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Time Bomb
Director of Photography
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
La fille de Hambourg
Director of Photography
살며시 안아주세요
Director of Photography
고아원을 탈출한 아리따운 18살 처녀 비르지니(미렌드 드몽조)는 범죄조직에 몸을 담으며 활동하다가 그만 경찰에 걸려 구금되고 만다. 이 와중에 경찰서를 방문한 형사 장(앙리 비달)은 비르지니에게 한눈에 반하여 두사람은 결혼까지 이르게 된다. 하지만 과거 범죄 조직과 관련되었던 비르지니는 협박 때문에 할 수 없이 범죄단을 돕게 되고 남편 장은 양아치 출신의 알랭 들롱과 함께 범죄단에 납치된 비르지니를 구하려고 하는데...
The Night Heaven Fell
Director of Photography
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. She falls in love with Lambert, the killer of her uncle.
No Sun in Venice
Director of Photography
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
그리고 신은 여자를 창조했다
Director of Photography
생 트로페의 작은 마을에서 양부모와 함께 사는 줄리에트는 성적인 매력이 넘치는 18세의 소녀로 마을 남자들의 욕망의 대상이다. 그 사실을 잘 알고 있는 줄리에트는 자극적인 옷차림과 행동으로 남자들을 애태우면서 이를 즐긴다. 부유한 사업가 카라딘을 포함해 모든 사람들이 그녀에게 매료되지만 그녀가 선택한 남자는 가난한 배 제조업자 집안의 장남 앙뜨완이다. 하지만 그녀가 마을에서 일으키는 스캔들에 진력이 난 양부모는 그녀를 파양시키려 하고 그녀는 고아원으로 돌아가지 않기 위해 앙뜨완의 동생과 결혼을 하는데..
살의의 순간
Director of Photography
이름난 요리사 앙드레 샤틀랭은 파리의 분주한 시장 구역에서 고급 레스토랑을 운영하고 있다. 어느 날, 전부인 가브리엘의 딸 카트린느가 예기치 않게 찾아오는데, 앙드레는 가브리엘이 죽었다는 말을 듣고 카트린느를 집에 머물게 한다. 이날부터 카트린느는 앙드레의 애정을 얻기 위해 갖은 노력을 하며 앙드레의 양아들 제라르를 탐탁치 않게 여긴다. 하지만 오히려 제라르는 카트린느를 사랑하게 되는데, 앙드레와 제라르 모두 카트린느의 본심이 무엇인지는 전혀 알아차리지 못한다. 그녀는 오로지 레스토랑을 상속받는 데에만 관심이 있을 뿐이며, 그것을 위해서는 어떤 수단이라도 취할 작정이다. 심지어 살인까지도...
If All the Guys in the World...
Director of Photography
Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour
Director of Photography
디아볼릭
Director of Photography
자신의 아내인 크리스티나의 돈으로 구입한 기숙사 학교의 교장 노릇을 하고 있는 미셸 들라살은 아내에게 폭행과 모욕을 일삼는 잔혹하고 인색한 사람이다. 한때 수녀이기도 했던 여리고 착한 여자인 크리스티나는 그런 남편의 구박에 하루도 편할 날이 없다. 그러던 어느 날, 미셸의 정부이자 학교 선생인 니콜 오르네가 크리스티나를 찾아와 미셸을 함께 살해하자고 제안한다. 둘은 학기 중 쉬는 기간을 이용해 니콜의 고향으로 가 이혼하고 싶으니 돈을 돌려달라는 말로 미셸을 유인한다. 격분한 미셸이 달려오고, 두 여자는 독이 든 와인을 마시게 해 쓰러진 미셸을 욕조에 빠뜨려 익사시킨다. 그리고 미셸이 술에 취해 사고로 익사했다고 만들기 위해 학교로 돌아와 시체를 수영장에 던져버린다. 하지만 미셸의 시체는 떠오르지 않고, 크리스티나는 점점 불안과 공포에 시달리게 된다. 결국 크리스티나는 수영장의 물을 다 빼내고 시체를 확인하기로 한다. 그러나 시체는 감쪽같이 사라져 버리고 없다. 그때부터 미셸이 입고 있던 옷이 세탁소에서 배달되는 등 미셸이 살아있다고 믿어질 만한 이상한 사건들이 연속적으로 일어난다.
Mademoiselle Nitouche
Director of Photography
Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star. When schoolgirl Denise stumbles onto Celestin's secret, she threatens to tell all -- but only if Celestin refuses to escort her to the opening night of his latest opera. As a result, Denise falls in love with a handsome young soldier, while Celestin is accidentally shipped off to an army camp. A series of silly coincidences brings happiness to all concerned by fade-out time.
Act of Love
Director of Photography
An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.
공포의 보수
Director of Photography
프랑스인 마리오는 남미의 어느 한 지방으로 흘러들어온다. 자신과 처지가 비슷한 이방인들이 모여 있는 곳으로, 그는 남미인 친구 루이지와 동거하면서, 페피토의 식당에서 일하는 린다를 사랑한다. 어느날 산전수전 다 겪은 조가 등장하자 마리오는 그를 존경하면서 루이지와 헤어지고 그와 친하게 지낸다. 한편, 미국인들이 개발하는 유전에서 화재가 발생하고, 담당자 오브라이언은 거금을 걸고 오지의 화재근원지에 폭탄의 원료가 되는 질소를 운반할 수 있는 트럭 운전수를 채용하려고 한다. 4명의 운전수 중에 발탁된 조와 마리오는 또다른 팀을 이룬 빔바와 루이지 일행과 함께 목숨을 건 운반을 시작한다.
나이트 뷰티스
Director of Photography
꿈 같은 르네 클레르 특유의 비엔나적 낭만주의 코미디 환타지로 음악과 잠과 꿈이 주제가 되는 벨 에포크 (Belle Epoque) 영화 입니다. 너무나 아름다운 네 명의 여주인공들이 꿈 속에서 과거의 여러 시대와 현실을 오가며 가난한 음악가 주인공과 함께 일인 다역을 해냅니다. -줄리아노
Paris Still Sings!
Director of Photography
A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins ​​embark on the race for signatures.
Utopia
Cinematography
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
Miquette
Director of Photography
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
Brasil
Director of Photography
Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon with his wife Véra Clouzot whose of Brazilian origin. Only an introductionary section set in Paris was ever filmed.
Brasil
Self
Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon with his wife Véra Clouzot whose of Brazilian origin. Only an introductionary section set in Paris was ever filmed.
마농
Director of Photography
2차 세계대전이 끝나가던 무렵의 프랑스. 마을 사람들은 독일군과 놀아났다는 마농을 둘러싸고 집단적인 폭력을 행사하려 한다. 레지스탕스 일원인 로베르가 마농을 위기에서 구해내고, 두 사람은 파리로 피신해 마농의 오빠 레옹을 찾아간다. 하지만 로베르의 뜻과는 달리 마농은 매춘까지 하게 되고, 모든 게 레옹 때문이라 생각한 로베르는 레옹을 죽이고 만다. 아베 프레보의 1731년작 『마농 레스코』를 각색하였다. 귀족 청년과 화류계 여인의 사랑과 파멸을 담은 강렬한 사랑 이야기를 나치 점령기의 프랑스로 옮겨와 당대 젊은이들의 억눌린 욕망과 절실한 사랑을 비극적으로 그려냈다. (영화의 전당 - 오래된 극장 2016)
Le Dessous des cartes
Camera Supervisor
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Florence, his wife, refuses to join him. Desperate Claude commits suicide, Florence then decides to pass her suicide off as murder in order to receive her late husband's life insurance.
Monelle
Director of Photography
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Jenny Lamour
Director of Photography
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
침묵은 금
Director of Photography
1900년대 파리, 영화제작자 에밀은 오랜 친구로부터 딸을 보살펴 달라는 부탁을 받는다. 시골에서 온 마들렌을 자신의 집에 머물게 한 에밀은 도시 생활의 이모저모를 가르쳐 주는데, 그러다 어느새 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 한편, 에밀의 영화사에서 일했던 자크가 제대 후 돌아오고, 자크와 마들렌은 서로에게 이끌린다. 하지만 마들렌은 자상하게 자신을 돌봐준 에밀에게 미안함을 느낀다. 클레르가 영국과 미국을 거쳐 다시 프랑스로 돌아와 만든 작품으로, 무성영화 시대를 배경으로 한다. 프랑스에서 미국으로 건너가 뮤지컬 코미디 장르에서 활약한 스타인 유쾌한 프랑스 신사 모리스 슈발리에가 주연을 맡았다. (영화의 전당 - 오래된 극장 2016)
Rendezvous in Paris
Director of Photography
When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know him better and becomes susceptible to his charm. She realizes that Michel is in love with her and it is not long before she goes beyond her disastrous first impression. Although not quite sure he is a perfectly honest man she entrusts him with a delicate assignment: keep her precious pearl necklace coveted by Van Coolart, a fake Dutch diamond-merchant, and give it back to her in Paris. If he is a robber himself, so much the worse for her. But if Michel keeps the Paris rendezvous love is in store for both of them. Nevertheless there is a crucial factor she regrettably disregards, composer Raymond Aubour, a faithful friend who has been her suitor for ten years.
Devil's Daughter
Director of Photography
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.
Roger the Disgrace
Director of Photography
Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
The Wolf Farm
Director of Photography
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
Valley of Hell
Director of Photography
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison for theft. Noël goes to see a dying friend, Romieux, who asks him to take care of his daughter Marthe, who has settled in Paris (Batignolles district). Noël goes there and discovers that Marthe is destitute (her lover Gaston being an incarcerated mobster): he then offers her to come and live with him and soon, marries her.
Shop Girls of Paris
Cinematography
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu (Michel Simon) faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu (Blanchette Brunoy), sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
Carnival of Sinners
Director of Photography
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
21번가의 살인자
Director of Photography
21번가에 ‘듀랑’이란 명함을 희생자의 시체 위에 올려 놓는 연쇄살인사건이 잇달아 발생하자 도시는 공포에 사로잡힌다. 이에 형사 웬스는 신분을 위장한 채 동네로 이사를 와 수사를 개시한다. 하지만 바로 그가 지내는 아파트에서 또 다른 살인사건이 발생하고, 결국 웬스는 물론 그의 아내까지 생명에 위협을 느낀다. (2014 한국시네마테크협의회 - 한겨울의 클래식 - 프랑스 고전영화 특별전)
La Symphonie fantastique
Director of Photography
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
폭풍우
Director of Photography
견인선 시클롭의 선장 앙드레는 브레스트에서 아내와 함께 살고 있다. 그는 구조를 계기로 만난 카트린과 불륜에 빠져들고, 아내 이본은 몸져 눕는다. 장 그레미용의 연출과 시인 자크 프레베르의 감성적인 대사, 장 가뱅과 미셸 모르강의 명연기가 조화를 이룬 작품. (2019년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 여름의 빛)
Ne bougez plus!
Director of Photography
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir and his faithful secretary Palmer? Who will find the key to the Enigma: The melancholic Hector, the youthful Geneviève, or the feverish Elyane?
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Director of Photography
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
Fric-Frac
Director of Photography
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
La Tradition de minuit
Director of Photography
Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
북호텔
Director of Photography
A young couple, Renée and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hôtel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but having shot at Renée, Pierre lacked the courage to finish the job and fled. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renée goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renée is still thinking of Pierre...
Youth in Revolt
Director of Photography
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were given an idyllic community in which to live. Call it a colony. Call it a village. Call it one-world. Mainly call it a futile exercise in changing human nature, mores, culture and attitudes at any altitude. For t'ain't no time before clashing personalities, petty jealousy, violence and---that old demon---love create havoc. And isn't much longer before they become re-united in the face of an avalanche that threatens to destroy them. They all return to whence they came, sadder and wiser.
Orage
Director of Photography
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.
The Queen of Spades
Director of Photography
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
The Citadel of Silence
Director of Photography
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
Nights of Fire
Director of Photography
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
Le roman d'un spahi
Director of Photography
The spahi Jean Peyral is very in love with the flirtatious Cora. When he realizes that she betrays him, he tries to kill himself. He is saved by the tenderness of a young native, Fatou.
비우
Director of Photography
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...
Flight Into Darkness
Director of Photography
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
Black Eyes
Director of Photography
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is butler in a restaurant of rendezvous. She meets a banker who seeks to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter back home. The pure love that her piano teacher gives her will allow the girl to console herself for her disillusions.
S. S. Tenacity
Director of Photography
Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.
The Lady of Lebanon
Director of Photography
The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.
The Little King
Director of Photography
King Michel VIII is still a child, but when revolution threatens, the young monarch's entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.
A Man's Neck
Director of Photography
Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. Someone lets him know it's a deal. The aunt is murdered, and a poor chap is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Le sexe faible
Director of Photography
The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children and fix any issues that arise for those already married.
The Man in the Hispano-Suiza
Camera Operator
The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George becomes the lover of Lady Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.
The Red Head
Director of Photography
A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him, but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
The Five Accursed Gentlemen
Director of Photography
European tourists on holiday in Morocco are threatened by a native sorcerer who predicts five of them will die, one by one, before the full moon.
Moon over Morocco
Director of Photography
When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...
David Golder
Director of Photography
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
Au Bonheur des Dames
Director of Photography
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux
Director of Photography
A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.
Mother Hummingbird
Director of Photography
A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.
The Divine Voyage
Director of Photography
A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
L'Eau du Nil
Director of Photography
Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.
The Maelstrom of Paris
Director of Photography
Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.
The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower
Director of Photography
The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing the money. This formidable brotherhood, whose headquarters are in the Eiffel Tower, send the Mironton Brothers on impossible adventures and countless traps.
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
Director of Photography
Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin's secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.
Revelation
Director of Photography
A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.
L'Homme à l'Hispano
Director of Photography
The almost financial ruined gentleman Georges Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from friends. George becomes the lover of Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.
The Smiling Madame Beudet
Le commis
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.