Self (archive footage)
May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the relationship the president had with television, that he witnessed and played a role in.
César Lévy
Clémy
Commissaire Navarro
Yolande, the daughter of Commissioner Navarro, pleads her first case. The worthy daughter of the commissioner wins hands down. Her client is exonerated despite the relentlessness of Lieutenant Garrel. Happy with her accomplished duty, she leaves the Palace for the office of Master Rossi, her boss, where her colleagues reserve a small party for her.
Paul Dalembert
Joseph Joanovici
Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew married to Eva and father of Theresa, lives in Paris in 1939, on the eve of World War II. He managed to make his place in society by trading scrap.
César
When the man he thought was his father dies, a young man learns the identity of his true father.
César
After Marius leaves, Fanny learns that she is carrying his child. To save her family's honor, Honorine wants her daughter to marry Panisse, a good rich man who is willing to adopt her child.
César
Adaptation of the popular French play Marius in which a youth is torn between his girlfriend and his love for the sea.
Aimable Castanier
In a small village of Haute-Provence, it is an event. The abandoned bakery comes back to life. Aimable and his wife Aurélie bring out the first batch of bread for the happiness of the inhabitants. Among the first customers, Dominique, a young shepherd, does not leave Aurélie indifferent...
Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see.
Writer
During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother.
Director
During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother.
Professeur Lévy
During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother.
Jacques Brachart
Аристократка Изабель де Марсак, имеющая любовника, рафинированных друзей и, как приятно, занятая благотворительностью, вдруг стала предметом страсти пожилого миллионера. Но есть ли у него шансы на взаимную любовь, когда всю жизнь он положил на то, чтобы выбиться в миллионеры?
Self
Scali
Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to his uncle and his cousin Marcel, he moves with his mother Oumi to work for the wealthy landowner Mr. Scali, a talkative and boastful man.
Self
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
David
David, an overly jealous widower haunts Yvan, the ex-lover of his deceased wife, who is also apparently the true father of the couple's surviving daughter. The behavior of the grieving David, self-destructive and abusive at the same time, has grave consequences for Yvan, his daughter and the band of fellow musicians who work with Yvan.
Raymond Bettoun
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
Picard
Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.
Director
Muller
Mr. Muller meets a mysterious woman who apparently knows a few things from his past that he would rather have kept hidden.
Berzine
Director
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
William Barres
In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.
Beppo Manzoni
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Director
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Victor Harris
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
Commissaire Couturier
This movie starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man by forcing him out of a window on the speeding train. Their crime is witnessed by Isabelle and reported to the police, enabling commissioner Couturier to find the killers. The major problem now is to prevent a race riot when right-wing extremists falsely accuse some Arabs of reprehensible actions and the townspeople gather to demonstrate at the prison.
Director
This movie starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man by forcing him out of a window on the speeding train. Their crime is witnessed by Isabelle and reported to the police, enabling commissioner Couturier to find the killers. The major problem now is to prevent a race riot when right-wing extremists falsely accuse some Arabs of reprehensible actions and the townspeople gather to demonstrate at the prison.
Maurice
A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.
Léon Castelli
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
Philippe
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Aimé Prado
Aimé Prado, pied-noir based in Marseille, is a very renowned restaurateur. He befriends Julien, a marginal man wanted for the accidental death of a racist cafe owner.
The Innkeeper
Жан Вальжан отбыл на каторге 20 лет за кражу корки хлеба, а затем, после встречи с обезоруживающей добротой священника, у которого он крадет подсвечники, посвящает себя и всю свою жизнь творению добра.
Raymond Beitoun
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
Charles-Hubert Poissonnard
Georges
Albert Narboni
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
Producer
The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.
Roger Karbaoui
Адриен Куртуа, муж зажиточной хозяйки аптеки, однажды решил на деньги жены поиграть на товарной бирже. И конечно же он попадает в лапы «акулам с Уолл-стрит» в лице нечестного брокера Рауля Омекура, сахарного олигарха Грезильо, биржевого спекулянта Карбуи и других ушлых прощелыг крупного и среднего формата, затеявших биржевую аферу с сахаром. Доверчивый бедолага Куртуа на деньги жены впрягся в рискованную игру, и до поры до времени дела у него шли неплохо…
Director
While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the transaction. France then decides to put one of its worst agents on the case, a certain Maxime, who has a very loose tongue. All they have to do is send him false information, hoping that it will fall into the ears of their enemies...
Canello
A surgeon saves an notorious mobster's life. This could be the answer to the doctor's problems, as he is engaged to an unbearable, hysterical woman. The mobster agrees to assassinate her. Except for one thing. The mobster has the wrong target, a young, innocent journalist who resembles his fiancee. When the surgeon discovers they are after the wrong woman, he takes off in a mad race to Cote d'Azur to save the wrong woman from being murdered.
Writer
Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
Julien Da Costa
Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
Director
Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
Barbarin
Carré
Тони Ардзента — хладнокровный и неуловимый наемный убийца, работающий на могущественный криминальный синдикат, «лучший» в кровавом «бизнесе». Когда Тони неожиданно сообщает своим боссам, что очередной заказ — его последнее дело, после которого он планирует завязать, они, недолго посовещавшись, выносят ему смертный приговор. Но по трагической случайности вместо Тони во взорвавшейся машине погибают его жена и ребенок. Теперь Ардзента неумолим — ведь ему нечего терять. По-прежнему уверенный в своих силах, он объявляет войну синдикату…
Le patron de l'hôtel
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
Quiberon
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
Kurt
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
Inspecteur Borelli
Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug denies involvement. To compel him to sign a full confession, Inspector Muller encourages the suspect to get married for - he says - to move the jury. This being done, he lets Jean believe that he can spend a moment alone with his wife; but then, Inspector Borelli blackmails him: "If you sign your confession, you can spend a moment with her." After being beaten, Jean signs a confession. It is then that a new blackmail intervenes: "the name of the accomplice?", asks the inspector. But the thug refuses to denounce the latter and ends up refusing the bargain dupes. While the guards drive him back to prison, his wife cuts his veins, breaking the career of the bad policeman.
André
Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.
M. Brumeu, le Père de Pierre
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.
L'inspecteur des grands magasins / Frascati
Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
Michel Fauvel
The weekend of August 15th gives the opportunity to Michel Fauvet, a recently divorced father, to spend two full days with Bruno, his thirteen-year-old son, that he can normally see only one Sunday a month. Feeling guilty, he tries to compensate for the trauma inflicted to Bruno by giving him presents. This time around, Michel has decided to treat him to a nice trip to Bruges and the Belgian Coast. Which will not prevent Bruno from asking his father disturbing questions.
The Boss
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.
Saint-Dominique
Julien Saint Dominique, an agent of the French counter-espionage service in Berlin, investigates the kidnapping of a functionary taken by German communists into East Germany.
François Cartier
Inspector Pierre Grimaldi
2-й из серии британо-немецких фильмов 60-х годов о зловещем докторе Фу Манчу.
Одержимый идеей мирового господства Фу Манчу строит устройство, способное передавать энергию в форме звуковых волн, с помощью которого он собирается диктовать свою волю правительствам многих стран. Для того, чтобы управлять этими высокими технологиями, Фу Манчу нужны ученые, которых он шантажирует, похитив их дочерей и жен. К несчастью для китайского злодея, снова в деле комиссар Скотланд-Ярда Нейланд Смит…
Daniel Layton, Agent B-17 / Tiger
Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.
Sadov
The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the countries rich oil resources. The USSR sent a team of their best secret agents to rob the document, so that later they can apprehend the ship which must pass through one of the Russian ports... After special training in a secret island in the Black Sea, Alex, Sadov and Sonia are sent in to get the documents. All goes according to plan, and Sadov gives the handbag to the mastermind, General Fiodorenko. On opening it though, the handbag explodes. Who is the infiltrated agent in the most secret of the Soviets secret ring?
Franck Norman
Screenplay
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
Louis Rapière
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
Bruno Kerrien
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from someone aboard - entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a tiger with ruby eyes. Unknown to her, these false jewels contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind. Doctor Kha is just one among many spies from different nations trying to get their hands on the tiger, or Marie-Chantal... It will give any nation a tremendous control over all others! Marie-Chantal, a snob girl, will evade all attacks by sheer female cunning, and shows tigerish qualities in dealing with her male, and female foes.
Robert 'Bob' Stuart
CIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in southern Spain. He discovers the base is being heavily monitored by the KGB via hidden cameras and moles within the base, and he must find a way to ferret the traitors out whilst avoiding discovery of his investigation.
Mirmont
Writer
Во время оперного спектакля террористы похищают дочь министра торговли Турции, прибывшего с визитом в Париж для покупки военных самолётов. Министр и его жена становятся мишенью неизвестных убийц. На спасение похищенной девушки отправляется секретный агент под кодовым именем Тигр.
Le Tigre
Во время оперного спектакля террористы похищают дочь министра торговли Турции, прибывшего с визитом в Париж для покупки военных самолётов. Министр и его жена становятся мишенью неизвестных убийц. На спасение похищенной девушки отправляется секретный агент под кодовым именем Тигр.
Captain Paolinelli
Фильм одного из отцов итальянской комедии, Дино Ризи, в трагикомической форме показывает историю возникновения фашизма в Италии с 1919 г. по 1922 г. (знаменитый Поход на Рим) глазами Доменико Роккетти и Умберто Гаваццо. Первый - хитроумный римлянин, после войны оставшийся без работы и перебивающийся попрошайничеством на улицах Милана. Второй, его бывший товарищ и сослуживец, а ныне безработный батрак и наивный простак, выгнанный своим зятем из дома. Примкнув к зарождающемуся фашистскому движению, они оказываются приговоренными к двум годам лишения свободы за нападение на полицейского во время забастовки дворников и освобождаются из тюрьмы товарищами-фашистами как раз накануне Похода на Рим. Постепенно разочаровавшись в идеалах фашизма и придя в ужас от жестокого и бессмысленного убийства ни в чём не повинного работника железной дороги, друзья оставляют фашистов, как раз в тот момент, когда Муссолини приходит к власти.
acteur
Jean de Lursac
The French Secret Services are out to recover some secret documents stolen from a Russian cultural attaché, while he struggles to prove his innocence. That is, if he is innocent.
Self
Inspector Landais
Police inspector, Landais is caught in a tough situation. Daniele has murdered her husband, yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely overcome by her. Her obvious attractions have him in thrall and eventually he realizes he will do anything not to lose her. His solution is to cover up for her crime, after which things begin to go poorly.
Charles le Téméraire
Шевалье де Невиль влюблен в Жанну де Бове - крестницу Людовика ХI. Однако французский король - по политическим соображениям - хочет выдать ее замуж за Карла Смелого, герцога Бургундского, коварного вдохновителя государственного заговора. Герцог похищает Жанну, но граф де Невиль проникает в замок и в головокружительно красивых поединках освобождает возлюбленную. Однако их любви предстоят тяжкие испытания…
Ravaillac
Morini
Овдовевшая Росария Паронди и четверо её сыновей решают переехать из нищей Сицилийской деревни в Милан, где живёт пятый сын. В поисках лучшей доли и достойного заработка братья не гнушаются никакой работы. Постепенно каждый находит своё место. Но отношения в некогда сплоченной семье раскалываются: красавец Рокко вступает в противоборство со своим жестоким братом Симоном. «Яблоком раздора» становится девушка легкого поведения Надя, решившая оставить работу и выйти замуж. Именно её расположения добиваются братья. Ожесточённая вражда способна завести их слишком далеко, вплоть до убийства…
Michel Ferréol
Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
Serge Cazais
Carl Zubart
Мишель Пуакар – настоящий прожигатель жизни, зарабатывающий на жизнь кражами дорогих машин. Он никогда не задумывается о последствиях своих криминальных выходок – просто живет, как хочет, ни на кого не рассчитывая, ни с кем не считаясь. Видимо, потому что молод и самонадеян. Но однажды, по дороге в Париж, Мишель убивает полицейского: просто для того, чтобы избежать неприятных расспросов. Но с этой минуты в его жизни больше не будет ничего, кроме неприятностей.
Le Gorille
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
Antoine Castellani
Действие фильма происходит накануне высадки Союзных войск в Нормандиию Пятеро бойцов французского сопротивления — трое мужчин и две женщины — убивают немецкого офецераю Их ловят и приговаривают к смерти. В подвале уединенного домика на берегу моря они проведут шестьдесят бесконечно долгих минут в томительном ожидании смерти.
Robert Bertin
Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques returns to his life as an honest man.
'Le Bug'
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
Robert Sartori, subalterne de Jean pendant la guerre
Жан Бреван, рекламщик из крупного рекламного агентства, бывший боец Сопротивления, погружается с головой в работу, чтобы попытаться забыть, что его жена Катрин 5 лет назад ушла от него. Однажды он снова встречает её в автобусе перед Военной школой. Он по-прежнему её любит. И она тоже постепенно обнаруживает, что продолжает любить его, несмотря ни на что. Весь уик-энд Жан будет балансировать между желанием её вернуть и убить…
Dick
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hunted by the thug who wants to recover his money.
Itchoa
Love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France.
Albert Simoni, le patron de "L'Œuf"
Инспектор Валуа начинает расследование убийства владельца ночного кабаре. Почти сразу подозрение падает на его подружку, но это слишком очевидно. Поэтому такая версия не устраивает Валуа...
Charlemagne, le voleur de bijoux
Если девушка хороша собой, обладает заводным характером и не имеет ни гроша за душой, ей не стоит искать приключений на свою голову. Но героине фильма не сиделось на месте, и теперь она удирает и от бандитов, и от полиции…
Pierre
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
Bebe
Одно из самых больших несчастий и бед, которые принесла цивилизация человечеству — работорговля. Таманго — это африканский воин, узнавший власть денег и быстро привыкший к «благам» цивилизации — спиртному, оружию, предательству. Таманго такой же чернокожий, как и те, кого он продает белым. Но воин верит, что репутация хорошего поставщика «черного дерева» сможет защитить его от любой беды.
Olivier
Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1940 story, "Cinderella and the Mob"
Panagiotaros
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
Istria
A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.
un soldat
Отправленные в разведку бригадир Гусс и рядовой Флико потеряли собственных лошадей. Чтобы не выставлять себя на всеобщее посмешище, они отправляются на поиски своих скакунов в ближайший городок. На беду беглецов их полк отправляется к ним на выручку.
Un mauvais garçon (uncredited)
Заключенных Макара и Руделя обвинили в том, что они «заложили» своего третьего сокамерника, приведя его на гильотину. Подозревая друг друга в предательстве и не видя иного выхода из ситуации, чтобы спасти свои жизни и установить истину, они решаются на побег. Выбравшись из тюрьмы и пытаясь скрыться от висящей на хвосте полиции, беглецы попадают в одинокий домик на берегу моря, где отдыхает молодая пара: художник со своей моделью. Пытаясь оказать сопротивление, мужчина гибнет от рук преступников, а девушка остается наедине с двумя загнанными в угол и смертельно опасными бандитами…
René Schwob, le chef de la bande
Жан Габен в роли крутого и неболтивого водителя грузовика ухаживает за учительницей Жанной Моро, и они собираются пожениться. Это одна неторопливо развивающаяся, сочная сюжетная линия. Параллельно намечается и вторая линия, которой, как ясно с самого начала, придется пересечься с основной. Четверо бандитов ограбили и убили двух инкассаторов, а один из них смылся с деньгами. Габен же ночью переехал через лежащее на дороге тело именно этого смывшегося с 50 миллионами бандита. Остальные прочитали об этом в газете и, решив, что Габен прикарманил деньги, решили их из него вытрясти. Но не на того ребята напали. Жан «со товарищи» окружил злодеев грузовиками со всех сторон и…
Ménard
Un homme de main de Rudy
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
A follower
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
Un consommateur à la terrasse d'un café (uncredited)
Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, Henri looks for his wife across the capital. He ends up finding her at the hotel they were to put up. But it looks as if Jeannette has gone through some distressing adventure.
