Le vieillard
Француз Жюльен и молодая привлекательная немка еврейского происхождения Анна бегут от наступающей гитлеровской армии. Они оказываются в одном поезде, и с первого взгляда между ними возникает глубокое чувство. Но по прибытии к месту назначения они вынуждены расстаться, ведь у Жюльен есть семья. Через несколько лет судьба вновь сводит их вместе на допросе в гестапо…
Mme Puglisi
Фоторепортер Поль занят своей работой, своей машиной и своей девушкой. Однажды он должен фотографировать злоумышленника, который только что убил агента, и скрылся. Обнаруженный Полом паспорт свидетельсвует, что речь идет о его друге Лоране, которому он обязан многим...
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only believes him but falls in love with him. But the examination magistrate is not convinced. For his part, he leans towards premeditation. Whether Sommet premeditated his act or acted out of anger and jealousy will be up to the court to decide.
le commissaire de police
Dr. Thibault
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
Филипп – инженер-конструктор, руководящий проектом по возведению громадной дамбы. Он должен уложиться в установленные сроки сдачи объекта, несмотря на возникающие на его пути препятствия – забастовки, несчастные случаи и т.д. Однако, есть еще и другая причина, заставляющая его спешить – у него больное сердце и жить ему осталось совсем немного…
Emile
Norwegian film's great charmer, Frank Robert, plays an associate professor and bachelor whose waking desire for life brings him to Paris, where he breaks free.
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henri. He and his accomplice involve him in a dangerous robbery. Henri is hurt and arrested by the police. But the young man, a weak character, denounces his accomplices. Two years later, the two gangsters run away from prison. Bob finds that Henri and Mado are husband and wife and have a daughter. In a panic, Henri runs for cover.
The abbot
Граф Роже де Таншбрей был сочтён погибшим в сражении с казаками в Шампани, во время Французской кампании 1814 года, ставшей прелюдией к падению Наполеона. Однако он сумел выжить, но на лице остались страшные шрамы от казацкой сабли. Для соблазнителя и сердцееда это страшный удар. Он возвращается домой в Нормандию в маске. Кожаный Нос компенсирует утраченную красоту эротическими безумствами, вошедшими в легенды.
До тех пор, пока ему не встретится девушка по имени Жюдит де Рьюсс, которая попытается ценой своей благородной души и репутации утихомирить его отчаяние. Она даже готова выйти за него замуж, но Таншбрей, несмотря на свои чувства к ней, отказывается… В образе Кожаного Носа представлена молодёжь Франции, потерявшая ориентиры после Революции и падения империи и безуспешно пытающаяся найти выход.
3. politioffiser
MS Lidvard was shipping corn from Vietnam, arriving in Dakar, Senegal May 30th 1940. The ship was immediately held back by the government, together with eight other norwegian ships. After a year, July 27th 1941, the ship fled from Dakar, to the British in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Récitant / Narrator
This Government-commissioned documentary was intended to reflect the modernisation of French industry. However, in Franju’s hands it became an ode to fire and a fascinating portrayal of industrial architecture.
Ганс - канадский моряк, пришвартовавшийся в Марселе. У него роман с владелицей кабаре Долорес. Когда его грабят и оставляют умирать, он приходит в себя и обнаруживает, что Долорес исчезла. Он устраивается на работу вышибалой в ночной клуб и заводит интрижку с цыганкой Таней.
Guillon, a young administrator is appointed by the French government in Ivory Coast to replace the former one, who has been assassinated. He is soon confronted to a caste oppressing the local peasants. By joining forces with the doctor and engineer he manages to restore calm. The oppressors then try terror. But the administrator refuses to be intimidated, and with the support of the natives, will be able to avenge the former administrator.
Narrator (voice)
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
Sergeant
On the borders of the desert, Péhu, a rather blunt creature on the verge of death, confesses to Charles Sigouane that some time before he stole and killed for the sake of a woman named Marie. Péhu recovers against all odds and returns to France with a view to finding Marie and to retrieve a loot he has hidden somewhere.
Lieusaint
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
Happily married to Sandrine, Pierre Fouques also known as Raboliot is the father of two young children. He would live a steady life hadn't he a passion for poaching, which gets him into a lot of trouble. Because of the nastiness of Bourrel, the gamekeeper, of the jealousy of other poachers, he becomes a hunted man who, in order to defend himself, is driven to commit a crime.
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.