Agency director (uncredited)
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
Commissaire Leclerc
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?
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier (Bernard Blier) recalls two of his most-celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga (Suzy Prin). The second concerns the brutal broad-daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne (Veronique Deschamps).
Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success.
Dr. Bettinger (uncredited)
Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.
Un interne (uncredited)
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.
Le commissaire
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
The Tsar (uncredited)
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
Canterbury
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Le chirurgien (uncredited)
Paris, during the winter after its Liberation: Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world, and that same evening Jean meets Malou. But he soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave his friend Raymond away to the Gestapo...
Le comte Nicolas de la Motte
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
Allemand
독일의 프랑스 점령기간 동안 우편물 수송에서 파업에 이르기까지 철도 노동자들의 참여와 1944년 6월 노르망디 상륙 작전 때 항독 지하 운동가들에게 중요한 지원을 하게 된 노동자들의 투쟁을 그린 연대기이다. 전쟁 종식 후 전문 배우가 아닌 실제 노동자들이 출연한 영화로 종전 후 클래식 영화의 진수로 꼽히고 있으며, 프랑스의 해방을 위해 투쟁한 모든 익명의 투쟁자들에게 경의를 표하는 영화라고 할 수 있다. 이 영화는 1940~ 1944년 독일 점령기에 반대하며 궐기했던 샬론 쉬르 사온 지역의 한 철도원에 대한 이야기이다. 전반부는 다큐멘터리 형식으로 철도 비밀 전쟁을 다루며, 나치스 당원들이 레지스탕스들을 처형하는 것으로 끝난다. 후반부는 납치와 상륙작전 당시 독일 압펠켄 호송 방해 사건을 재구성한다.
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her best to keep the young man away from the scams of his boss. However, the director, in love with Marcelle and jealous of Pierre, succeeds in trapping and ruining him. Marcelle will then denounce him to the police, but before being arrested he will kill her.
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
A Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a businessman proposing to create a seaside resort, much to the anger of the islanders.
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape.
A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.
정비공 출신이지만 장교로 진급한 마레샬 중위와 직업 장교인 볼디외 대위가 탄 비행기가 독일군 라펜슈타인 사령관에 의해 격추당한다. 볼디외와 같은 귀족계급인 라펜슈타인은 마레샬과 볼디외를 수용소에 보내기 전, 정중하게 식사에 초대한다. 수용소에 입소한 두 프랑스 군인들은 배우, 교수, 토지 측량기사 등 다양한 출신의 수감자들과 곧 친해진다. 특히 부유한 은행가의 아들인 로젠탈 덕분에 이들은 그에게 배달되어온 물품과 음식들로 초라하지 않은 수용소 생활을 영위한다.
le jeune homme
A jealous young woman murders her husband's mistress. A notorious scoundrel is accused of the crime. When, seized with remorse, the young woman goes to see the prosecutor to confess her crime, she is hit by a car and loses her memory. Her husband judges that she has earned the right to be forgotten and to happiness.
