The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose France as his motherland.
A doctor passionate about research leaves an uncle with an inheritance to die, knowing that he is the legatee. His work succeeds, but overcome by remorse, the doctor tries to commit suicide. He is saved thanks to the understanding of his wife and they both leave for the East to do research on leprosy.
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
L'excellence
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Hotel manager
Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very quickly that the servant has lied. The latter ends up denouncing his accomplice who is arrested when he was going to kill the informer.
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
Monsieur Pierrefonds
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
Le prêtre
During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English
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.
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 Marquis
Humpholz
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
The story of Charles de Foucauld, a cavalry officer, who became an explorer, and then became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara
Politician
When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing happens, neither in journalism nor in insurance.
Georges Vinot nicknamed Bouboule, a colorful but naive Parisian, falls prey to a gang of diamond thieves. Not only do they manipulate him into smuggling stolen precious stones into Senegal but they have bought life insurance on his head, which means they are prepared to do anything to liquidate him. But Bouboule succeeds in thwarting all their traps and eventually decides to settle down in a Senegalese village, of which he becomes... king!
Lloyd
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
A very rich businessman, knight of the Legion of Honor, bets that he can start his career from scratch. After all kinds of adventures, he climbs the ladder of society and, having become rich again, finds love and a new fortune.
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
Duc de Chavres
La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.
From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.
The chaplain
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
The Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.
Pierre Lauderin - un tenancier de boîte auquel Bucaille destine sa fille
Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.
Armand d'Arcy, owner of a glassworks
Prince de Chabran
A man once rejected by a young woman returns twenty years later to take revenge.
Vladimir Paulitch
Directed by Germaine Dulac.
M. Monet, a talented musician, loves his young wife Louise dearly. But Louise has a lover, Maurice Dartois. When Monet finds out that Louise cheats on him he gets so furious that Louise, scared to death, leaves the marital home and finds refuge at Maurice's. The trouble is that Maurice, who wants Louise only for himself, kicks his crippled brother Léo and his young sister Jeanne, who lived with him, out of his place. A regretful decision which will entail dramatic consequences...
Directed by Léon Poirier.
