Lui-même (archives)
Self (archive footage)
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.
Self (archive footage)
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
Self (archive footage)
Himself
Self (archive footage)
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.
Self (archive footage)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Self (archive footage)
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
Self
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
Himself
A documentary portrait of French actor/singer Yves Montand.
Léon Marcel
Dois jovens e um enigmático homem (Yves Montand) saem juntos para uma viagem de auto-descoberta por uma floresta (Pirinéus), aliando-se a outros personagens, com a intenção de chegar a um 'retiro sagrado'.
Pierre Marroux
Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.
Lui-même
A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy of the French Cinémathèque, "Astonishing unpublished travel diary, shot by Chris Marker in analog video on the occasion of a screening of L'Aveu in Moscow in 1990 [...] Armed with his camcorder, Marker films and records the comments, takes on the role of contemporary capital according to this unique ethnographic method that he has perfected".
Yves Montand
In a charming mixture of fantasy and reality, this film recalls the great musicals of Hollywood's Golden Age. Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime
César Soubeyran, le Papet
Dez anos após a morte de Jean Cadoret sua esposa voltou à vida de cantora de ópera e sua filha Manon tornou-se uma bela jovem pastora que vive no campo provençal idílico. Manon resolve se vingar dos homens responsáveis pela morte de seu pai.
César Soubeyran, le Papet
História se passa em 1920, mostrando a realidade rural do interior do sul da França na região de Provence. Após herdar uma propriedade rural, Jean de Florette e sua família chegam da cidade, decididos a trocar seu estilo urbano de viver pela vida mais natural do campo.
Self
In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).
Alex
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
Narrator
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)
Victor Valance
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
Noel Durieux
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
Henri Volney
Logo após ser reeleito o presidente Marc Jarry (Gabriel Cattand) é morto. Após um ano de investigações, a comissão Heiniger concluiu que o assassino tinha sido Karl Eric Daslow, um louco que agiu sozinho. Entretanto o procurador Henri Volney (Yves Montand), que fazia parte da comissão, se recusa a assinar o relatório final e começa investigar o caso com sua equipe. Logo ele percebe que o assassinato de Jarry foi obra de uma conspiração muito bem tramada.
Michel Follin
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Jean Larrea
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
Narrator (voice)
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Henri Savin
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
Morland
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Inspecteur Marc Ferrot
A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Ganay, who happens to be Ferrot's superior on the force; Ganay happens to be married to Therese, who is handicapped. Sylvia is found murdered, and Ferrot is assigned to investigate; Ferrot is convinced that Ganay killed Sylvia because she wanted to end their relationship, but to his dismay, Ferrot discovers that the killer has placed a number of false clues that point the blame toward Ferrot.
Voz
A prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord.
Martin
A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
Un milicien
Essa história é verdadeira. Um Tribunal de Exceção, uma Seção Especial, foi formado para condenar seis homens inocentes. Mas todos os juízes que o compunham foram condenados primeiro, antes de cumprirem o seu grotesco papel.
Na França ocupada durante a WW2, um oficial alemão foi morto. O colaboracionista Governo de Vichy decidiu atribuir a responsabilidade pela morte à seis criminosos "Pé-de-Chinelo". Juízes leais ao governo foram chamados para julgar e condenar o mais rápido possível.
Aparentemente a tradução do título original para o Brasil foi meio capenga. Ficou Sessão com "ss" e não com "ç".
Himself
This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.
Vincent
Três amigos enfrentam crises de meia-idade. Paul (Serge Reggiani) é um escritor que está bloqueado. François (Michel Piccoli) perdeu seus ideais e pratica a medicina pelo dinheiro; Sua esposa vive distante, eventualmente hostil. O encantador Vincent (Yves Montand), favorito de todos, enfrenta a falência, sua amante o deixa, e sua esposa, de quem ele está separado, quer o divórcio. As tensões entre os homens começa a se mostrar particularmente na amizade de François e Paul e na saúde de Vincent. Um homem mais jovem, Jack, torna-se atraente para Lucie, a esposa de François. Outro jovem amigo, o boxeador Jean, que é como um filho de Vincent e cuja namorada está grávida, vai lutar com um impiedoso lutador. A felicidade escapuliu desse círculo de amigos?
Self
The two memories
Laurent Bermann
A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...
Ange Orahona
Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his brother Baptiste who married Maria, the woman he loved. He finds out that his father was killed, but nobody wants to tell him the name of the killer. And finally he finds two killers expecting him.
Philip Michael Santore
No Uruguai, no início dos anos 1970, um funcionário da Agência para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (um grupo usado como uma frente para a formação policial estrangeira ) é seqüestrado por um grupo de guerrilha urbana. Usando seu interrogatório como um pano de fundo, o filme explora as consequências frequentemente brutal da luta entre o governo do Uruguai e da guerrilha esquerdista Tupamaro.
César
Rosalie é amigavelmente divorciado, dividindo seu tempo entre a casa de sua mãe, com seus irmãos e filha pequena, e César. Ele é um self made man, o rei do ferro-velho, extrovertido, simpático, apaixonado por ela. Surge David, um artista e velho apaixonado de Rosalie antes de seu casamento. De uma forma tranquila, planejada, ele procura recuperar Rosalie. As explosões ciumentas de César saem pela culatra e levam Rosalie aos braços de David. César continua tentando: ele compra a casa de férias à beira-mar da infância de Rosalie como um presente, a ganha de volta, e então pede a David para se juntar a eles, para Rosalie voltar a ser feliz. Quando Rosalie descobre a cumplicidade de César e David, ela mais uma vez afirma sua liberdade, deixando os homens sozinhos.
Him, Jacques
Godard examina a estrutura de filmes, relacionamentos e revoluções através da vida de um casal em Paris. Jean-Luc Godard disseca a estrutura da sociedade, de filmes, do amor e da revolução. Ele faz perguntas convincentes: O amor pode sobreviver a um relacionamento? A ideologia pode sobreviver a revolução? Ele também analisa as manifestações dos estudantes franceses na década de 1960, com um olhar crítico, e acaba satirizando visões contemporâneas da história. Uma bateria de pensamentos completos com uma crítica da sociedade moderna e dos filmes.
Blaze
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Self - Interviewee
Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.
Jansen
O grande ladrão Corey acabou de sair da prisão. Mas, ao invés de seguir a linha da liberdade que respeita a lei, ele se vê de volta ao mundo sombrio do crime, cruzando com um notório fugitivo e um ex-policial alcoólatra. Como esse trio improvável planeja um roubo contra probabilidades impossíveis, sua trilha é perseguida por um inspetor implacável, e a sorte sela seus destinos.
Dr. Marc Chabot
Os talentos do aclamado diretor Vincente Minnelli (Agora Seremos Felizes, Sinfonia de Paris) e da lendária Barbra Streisand se combinam para criar esta produção da Broadway nas telas, em grande estilo. Streisand é Daisy Gamble, uma fumante compulsiva desesperada para largar o vício. Ela encontra o tratamento perfeito com o Dr. Marc Chabot (Yves Montand), um psiquiatra que usa a hipnose. Mas quando entra em transe, Daisy retorna a vidas passadas e assume diferentes personalidades incluindo Melinda, uma perua inglesa do século 19. E antes que se possa dizer amour, Dr. Marc se apaixona pela envolvente e encantadora Melinda... enquanto que Daisy, por sua vez, cai de quatro pelo charmoso hipnotizador ! A participação de Bob Newhart e Jack Nicholson aumentam ainda mais a diversão nesta sensacional comédia romântica.
Gérard (A.L. / Artur London)
Anton Ludvik, conhecido como Gerard, é o vice-ministro das Relações Exteriores da Checoslováquia. Ele percebe que está sendo vigiado e seguido. Um dia, ele é detido e colocado numa prisão, em confinamento solitário. Veremos as torturas mentais durante as investigações e como um servo fiel de alto escalão civil, é levado a confessar a traição. Baseado na história verídica do comunista checoslovaco Artur London. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
The Deputy, a doctor
Conheça o caso Lambrakis, onde a morte de um político foi encoberta vergonhosamente por políticos e policiais, na Grécia dos anos 60. Vencedor dos Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro e Edição, foi o primeiro filme a ser indicado também na categoria Melhor Filme. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Le baron César Maricorne
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
Capt. Formidable
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Mathias
Mathias é um linguista belga, e vive com Anne, uma francesa produtora de teatro. Após uma discussão sobre questões morais, eles tomam um trem para participar de um congresso. Enquanto Mathias dorme, Anne desaparece. O trem faz uma parada no meio do país e Mathias sai do trem com um homem mais velho, Hernhutter, e um jovem, Val. Quando o trem parte da estação eles não conseguem embarcar. Então eles vão até a aldeia próxima, mas não pode receber qualquer ajuda, porque eles não entendem uma palavra do que dizem os habitantes.
Robert Colomb
Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.
Jean-Pierre Sarti
O piloto americano Aaron é demitido depois de um acidente na corrida de Mônaco, que acabou lesando seu companheiro de equipe, o inglês Stoddard. Enquanto ele se recupera, Aaron muda de equipe e começa a se envolver com a ex-esposa de Stoddard.
Sgt. Marcel Bizien
A verdadeira história da retirada do exército alemão de Paris em 1944. Neste filme longo e cheio de estrelas, vemos as lutas das várias facções da resistência francesa para recuperar o controle de Paris, perto do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O general nazista encarregado de Paris, Dietrich von Choltitz (Fröbe), têm ordens de Hitler para queimar a cidade se ele não puder controlá-lo ou se os Aliados chegarem muito perto. Grande parte do drama gira em torno das deliberações morais do General Dietrich, do embaixador sueco Raoul Nordling (Orson Welles), e dos ansiosos mas desesperadas líderes da resistência francesa.
Diego Mora / Carlos / Domingo
Um grupo de espanhóis refugiados na França tenta organizar protestos contra o governo em Madri. Sua rede está sob constante ameaça pela polícia espanhola e alguns deles foram recentemente presos. O personagem principal Diego (Yves Montand) dedicou toda a sua vida à batalha, mas ele se sente afastado para sempre. Ele não encontra seu lugar nem em seu país adotivo (França) nem no amor. Mas este filme não é sobre a história, é sobre estilo. Alain Resnais tem uma abordagem original neste filme e isso é o que faz com que esse filme valha a pena ser assistido. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Instructional film about the (former) biggest harbour in the world, with a hybrid format. Well known Ivens themes are revisited, like The Flying Dutchman in the fiction part of the film, who returns to the modern day Rotterdam, that has recovered very well after the devastating bombardments in the second world war.
Inspecteur Grazzi
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
Paul Robaix
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
Roger Demarest
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.
Candy Man
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
Jean-Marc Clement / Alexander Dumas
Ao descobrir que será alvo de uma peça teatral satírica, o bilionário Jean-Marc Clement resolve ir ao teatro para ver os ensaios. É lá que ele conhece a bela Amanda (Marilyn Monroe) e decide fazer parte da equipe para ficar perto dela.
Matteo Brigante
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Jean Meunier
Giovanni Squarciò
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
John Proctor
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956.
Die Windrose, distribuído no Brasil com o nome A Rosa-dos-Ventos (1957), Direção Geral de Alberto Cavalcanti e Joris Ivens. Aportes em criação de Simone Signoret, Yves Montand and Helene Weigel (wife of Bertold Brecht) e Yannick Bellon. Produzido pela DEFA da Alemanha Oriental. São 5 episódios. O brasileiro Ana (1954) dirigido por Alex Viany. O italiano Giovanna (1956), dirigido por Gillo Pontecorvo.
Ricuccio
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
Narrator (voice)
One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.
M. Léon
It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.
Michel Rivière
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
Lefebvre
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Songs
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.
Vasco
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Mario Livi
Quatro aventureiros aceitam fazer o transporte de nitroglicerina por um trajeto de estradas precárias. A recompensa prometida é o único meio de ganhar dinheiro suficiente para poder deixar o vilarejo isolado da América Central no qual foram parar.
Self
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.
Lui-même / Himself
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Commentator
Um grupo de viajantes, entre eles um monge, se hospeda em uma pequena pousada. Durante uma confissão, a dona diz ao monge que ela e o marido costumam envenenar os hóspedes para roubá-los, e ele agora terá que ajudar a salvar seus companheiros, sem poder revelar o que ouviu.
Raoul, un chanteur des rues
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Fontana
A young woodcutter turned into a boxer, learns the sad fact that some of his triumphs have been stage managed, and confronts his nasty manager.
Jean Diego
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...
Pierre
An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.