Lambert
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.
Commander Bernard
She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different, meet by chance on a liner and gradually realize that they complement each other harmoniously.
Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.
Surgeon
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
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Детективы плодовитой писательницы Соланж Дельмон пользуются успехом у публики, хотя пресса устами анонимного журналиста Б.Б. и пытается обвинить романистку во вредном влиянии, оказываемом ею на молодежь. Проблемам мадемуазель Дельмон готов посочувствовать её новый сосед Ришар Ферне, и постепенно Соланж открывает ему свои творческие замыслы и знакомит с персонажем будущей книги – поездным вором Фредериком. Однако созданные фантазией писательницы методы ограблений вымышленного Фредерика внезапно начинают воплощаться в жизнь.
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a sports event organizer and Lulu is the daughter of Ledoux, the supervisor in charge of tracking down free riders. After many misunderstandings, love will triumph.
Leaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs.
Friend (uncredited)
Филипп Кларенс — известный парижский модельер, соблазнивший невесту друга. Но впервые в его жизни отношения с женщиной носят серьезный характер.
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, disturbed by the one he believes to be his wife's double, becomes her lover. Little by little the truth breaks through. The husband takes leave of the mistress and returns to the wife whose return has been announced.
Monsignor Mouret, the bishop
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
Welton
Hélène, married to Larsonnier, has developed a crush for Germont, her neighbor. One night, she is abducted and she discovers that her kidnapper is none other than Germont. But, to her dismay, he does not act out of love for her : his only motivation is money, which he proves by asking her husband a five-Million-franc ransom. After a long hesitation, Larsonnier finally pays the sum and Hélène returns to him. As for Germont, chased by the police, he goes on the loose... Some time later, Hélène is kidnapped one more time, and again by Germont! But this time around, this the elopement of her dreams.
Martin Ladvenu (uncredited)
В этом фильме суд на Жанной д`Арк, который в действительности длился целый год, спрессован в один единственный день. В этот день её неоднократно допрашивает духовный суд, ей постоянно угрожают пытками, её лишают причастия, если только она не сознается в колдовстве. Наконец, когда она сталкивается с тем, чтобы быть сожжённой заживо, она отрекается, но после отрекается от своего отречения, и ее публично казнят.
