Aurore Clément

A woman suffers postpartum depression, leaves her home, her new baby and family, and flees to Portugal.

Tridan Lagache has spent his life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At the age of 50, he resigns from the Mexican vacation club where he was born, determined to find, 42 years later, his great childhood love, Violette. He arrives in Paris, naive and lost, but happy to be lodged with Louis, a half-brother he didn't know existed. To get rid of a cumbersome Tridan, Louis begs one of his conquests, Roxane, to pass herself off as Violette, whom Tridan thinks he recognizes at first sight.

It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of today’s France.

Except for Amine and Kimmy, the young couple of neighbors she meets regularly, visitors are rare in Constance Brunel's antique store. Loneliness is also her life. One night, Amine, in a panic, seeks help at her house: Kimmy has fallen badly when she slipped and she has killed herself. Thinking that the police will not believe this version because of his judicial past, Amine borrows Constance's car to take the corpse and make it disappear. In the days that follow, this shared secret brings Constance and Amine closer. But one morning, an anonymous letter accompanied by photos demands a ransom: someone in the building has seen everything, the blackmail begins.

Юная красавица Луиза — вьющиеся волосы, вечернее платье, пара немного поношенных туфель на высоком каблуке. Её тело обнаружили утром в центре Парижа. Рядом ни сумочки, ни документов. Ограбление? Месть? У следствия нет зацепок. За дело берется легендарный комиссар Мегрэ.

Pierre is still mourning his dead wife when he meets Laura, a joyful and sensual woman with whom he will have a new child, little Autumn. But will this passionate and unexpected love be able to resist the demons of the past?

In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 and who still dreams of becoming a writer; Margaux, the family’s radical artist, and Mathieu, 30, anxious to seduce pretty Sarah. Later, one day, one of them will make a life-changing decision ...

A silent fisherman in Texas, a blazing oil field in North Dakota, a mysterious community in Virginia, a women’s prison in Oregon, and a modernist home in California are the ostensible subjects of Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth’s new feature, GRAY HOUSE. But as meditations upon nature, isolation, decadence, and destitution, they are flawless conduits for seamless blends of documentary and narrative form, and stunning explorations of sound, image, and cinematic time. Mysterious and elusive, yet possessing an aesthetic and sensory unity (appearances by Denis Lavant, Aurore Clément, and Dianna Molzan mix with direct addresses from real-life laborers and inmates), GRAY HOUSE quietly recalibrates one’s sense of the world and our place within it.

Бриджит готовится к роли известной французской певицы Барбары. Актриса прорабатывает характер, жесты, манеры и интонации дивы. Разучивает партитуры, перенимает мимику — и всё больше сливается с персонажем. Режиссёр также готовится к съёмкам: изучает архивные кадры, занимается подбором музыки. Он вдохновлён и даже одержим, но Барбарой — или её воплощением?

Главная героиня фильма, уже не молодая женщина Анна, замужем за успешным кинопродюсером. Муж постоянно работает и почти не бывает дома, героиня чувствует себя одинокой и оттого несчастной. Когда супруг уезжает в очередную командировку, героиня отправляется на автомобиле из Канн в Париж. Сопровождает ее деловой партнер мужа, который окажется искусным обольстителем. Два коротких дня вместят увлекательное путешествие, которое напомнит Анне о том, что жизнь прекрасна.

За свою карьеру Шанталь Акерман сняла более 40 фильмов. Мы путешествуем вместе с ней из Парижа в Нью-Йорк, из Брюсселя в Тель-Авив, обсуждая некоторые из ее фильмов, пытаясь понять, как сформировался ее ни на что не похожий киноязык. Кого она вдохновила своим творчеством? Чем запомнится нам?

Рок-звезда Марианна Лэйн и ее бойфренд наслаждаются отдыхом на юге Италии. Островную идиллию пары нарушает визит Гарри, бывшего любовника Марианны, и его взрослой дочери. Легкомысленная игра, невинный флирт, настоящая страсть и всепоглощающая ревность обернутся для героев смертельной опасностью.

Клэр переживает смерть лучшей подруги — они были неразлучны с детства, делили радости и переживания отрочества, одновременно вышли замуж. Убитый горем вдовец предлагает Клэр остроумный способ выбраться из депрессии…

The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her Prince Charming is deprived of charisma. And, most terrible of all, her mother is incomparably more sexy.

A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.

A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.

Рубен — еврей, гомосексуал, наполовину финн, наполовину француз, почтальон, нерадивый сын, хамоватый брат, никчёмный любовник, сомнительный убийца и вор поневоле. Но сам Рубен не может разобраться, кто он таков. В поворотный момент своей жизни, когда перед ним маячит Красное море, Рубен пытается определить, чему стоит следовать: судьбе своего народа или велению своей души.

An older couple are about to spend another evening at the Opéra Garnier, the place where once they swore their eternal love for one another. An evening like any other after so many years spent together? Not with the affectionate playfulness they share. "You haven't changed. You are still an incurable romantic..." The film ends on that last line from a happy man as much in love as ever.

Philippe is a singer and in the existence of a singer, there are times when everything accelerates especially when a crazy groupie, neglected parents, a lunar ornithologist and a tough childhood friend strive to complicate the life... How to get out ?

Беренгария и Винсент вступали в брак в соответствии с буржуазными традициями. По обычаю, родственники и друзья собрались в деревне в прекрасный весенний день. Счастливый день для одних, болезненный для других, в любом случае, незабываемый для всех. Но, этот день вскоре станет "моментом истины"...

At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, solitary, they represent two generations that are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by one another. Their lives will intertwine, as one seeks out her future and the other is tormented by his past.

Fascination can drive us to take surprising action. In this same, perhaps illogical manner, I wanted, for my part, to return to the origins of "Zabriskie Point", the film by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. Can we rediscover in reality the meanings lost in fictions ? How does one belong, body and soul, to a work of this nature? To these questions, I set out to find an answer. Accompanied by my camera, I put into images this long voyage that would offer me the best, as well as the worst.

Romantic comedy

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his father's. One night, at the edge of the woods, a strange man called Haruki appears before him. He invites Martin to lose himself in the forest in order to encounter a stranger. The stranger comes in the form of Yoshido, a peculiar Japanese filmmaker, who, assisted by Mathilde, is preparing to shoot a film based on Haruki's unfinished novel La Vie lointaine.

Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), a film director, is conducting research for his latest film, and asks a funeral director if he can stay back at his funeral parlour after the close of business. Bertrand cannot resist getting into a coffin, and accidentally knocks the lid down, locking himself in the coffin.

A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.

Комиссар полиции в отставке Шарль Бойер попадает в лечебницу для душевнобольных. Несмотря на то, что разум старого полицейского поражен болезнью Альцгеймера, его неистребимое профессиональное чутье благодаря недугу обострилось с новой силой. В клинике, где оказался комиссар Бойер, таинственным образом начинают умирать пациенты, и безошибочный инстинкт сыщика подсказывает герою, что несчастные отправляются на тот свет с чьей-то помощью. И тогда Бойер решает провести собственное расследование...

У Эмили, дочери главного секретаря Людовика XIV, математический талант. Но в 18 веке наука и женщина - понятия несовместимые. Повзрослев, девушка бросает вызов и ученым мужам, и всему обществу. К врожденным способностям добавляются еще интимные страсти, театр, карты… Поведение Эмили многих возмущает. Усмирить эту увлекающуюся натуру может только человек высокого ума и большого дарования. Им стал Вольтер. В отношениях великого философа и его музы причудливо переплелись наука, искусство и любовь.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).

"Aurore, my friend, Aurore, the main actress of Rendez-vous d'Anna and other films of mine, our meeting, the why and how of our joint work". – Chantal Akerman

Adopted by a well-off Swiss couple with slightly older son and daughter, Vinh never cut off links with his country of origin. Postcards from the adoptive family regularly conveyed to Vinh's mother in Vietnam reassurance about the warmth and nurturing environment that she always wished for her boy. Now grown up, Vinh is getting married; after so many years, the wedding is the ideal opportunity for his mother, accompanied by uncle Dac, to visit the adoptive family. Nothing would cause a greater consternation among its members. The parents underwent a less than amicable divorce, the father is bankrupt, the sister estranged, the elder brother brooding, the model family broken up. What can be done to prevent the unavoidable and profound disappointment of Vinh's mother and uncle Dac when they discover the fiasco?

В 14 лет Марию Антуанетту выдали за дофина Франции. Короткий период ее популярности как супруги Людовика XVI сменился в 1774 году осуждением за легкомысленное и эксцентричное поведение на многочисленных празднествах, которые она устраивала в небольшой загородной усадьбе Малый Трианон близ Версаля (подарок Людовика XVI).Трудные времена Французской революции королева Мария Антуанетта встретила мужественно и с достоинством.

An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.

Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he tells his own story in the guise of the biblical tale of Jonas and the Whale. Somewhere in France, an elderly farmer has just lost his young son. His three other children help him as much as they can to get through the trial of the funeral, but the ceremony is halted when the old man falls ill. The two stories unfold parallel to each other and are alternated.

История наших дней, где двое женатых мужчин завидуют холостяку, который, в свою очередь, завидует женатым... И, конечно же, их женщины тоже ищут ответы на свои собственные вопросы.

In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies, Jean his law studies. A rivalry is born between the brothers when Jean, the youngest, inherits the fortune of Dr. Maréchal, his godfather, who has just died in the colonies.

"What they imagine" - Bernard chokes to death on a boiled egg while his wife looks on. Juliette watches him suffocate without intervening and, as though waking from a long sleep, she abruptly leaves their house, marching straight ahead. Arriving in Havre by chance, she tries to board a freighter, but must wait 48 hours. In the port, she encounters Santiago, a young man who sells chips from his father's mobile stall.

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Июнь 1940 года. Немцы вот-вот возьмут Париж. Вся Франция — правительство, журналисты, высший свет, учёные, шпионы, мелкие жулики, беженцы отступают на юг. И все в конце концов, оказываются в одном городе — Бордо и одном роскошном отеле «Сплендид». В этом единстве места и времени и разворачивается вся история — министры ухаживают за актрисами, попутно решая судьбы Франции, шпионы охотятся за учёными, попутно ухаживая за актрисами, жулики грабят склады, попутно спасая учёных, учёные перевозят по частям атомную бомбу, попутно влюбляясь в писателей…

Частный детектив Франсуа работает испытанным способом: он лаконичен с подозреваемыми, остроумен с лжецами, безжалостно откровенен с клиентами и непредсказуем с красивыми женщинами. Его не пугает опасность, но дело пропавшей студентки Рэйчел притягивает его своей мрачной таинственностью. Два сломанных пальца, перебитый нос и приказ «Забудь ее» не останавливает сыщика. Вскоре поиски девушки становятся для Франсуа наваждением, но он намерен докопаться до правды, какой бы страшной она ни была.

Оказавшись в солнечной Ницце, красивая и загадочная Шарлотт приезжает в самый дорогой отель, но не для того, чтобы отдыхать: она ищет работу. Там она знакомится с Полем, жена которого недавно совершила самоубийство. Шарлотт и Поль сближаются, и девушка рассказывает о невероятно запутанной истории, в которую она оказалась втянута помимо собственной воли. Поль хочет помочь ей, но Шарлотт не до конца откровенна с новым знакомым: скоро она исчезает, забрав все его деньги…

Jacques, 50-something bachelor painter and great seducer, is about to receive the charming Claire for dinner. Broke but clever, Jacques concocted a sumptuous meal. Everything looks great when, suddenly, a door slams and turns the evening into a fiasco. Jacques will have to change his plans, play the unexpected. However, that evening, it is the unexpected that will play with him.

«Ты такой миленький... Если ты хочешь, ты можешь оставаться в этом доме всю свою жизнь…» Склоненные над младенцем Танги, Поль и Эдит Гец не представляли, до какой степени это признание в любви их младенцу оказалось пророческим. 28 годами позже, Танги всегда в доме родителей. Блистая успехами в изучении китайского языка, очаровав весь мир, соблазняя всех, кого только можно, Танги сидит на шее своих родителей и чувствует себя прекрасно.

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken.

Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they discover his identity and draw him in, will this release him from his solitude, or confirm in his mind that he will always be the outsider?

Arian lives in Simon's large parisian appartment. He wants to know everything from her, follows her, has her accompanied for her trips and constantly interrogates her. Knowing her taste for women and her double life only exacerbates his suffering, his helplessness and his desire for her.

Когда уютному кафе «Бар Бомбей», расположенному в парижском пригороде, угрожает банкротство, его владельца Джимми осеняет блестящая идея: привлечь в него престижных клиентов из светского общества. Джимми уговаривает безработного актера Майка, никогда не расстающегося с джинсами и футболкой, сыграть роль аристократа, завести друзей среди богатых и титулованных особ и переманить их из шикарных аристократических клубов в «Бар Бомбей».

Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei. Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, and Julian Sands are just a few of the many cast members.

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one of them rehearses his part in a theatrical play, reading a 20th century philosophical text about totalitarianism.

Рассказ о жизни Клаудии Бертелли со дня ее рождения в 1946 году в миланской зажиточной семье до ее смерти в 1995 году. Она - идеалистическая натура, далекая от условностей, постоянно находится в поисках счастья, стараясь создать определенного рода утопию. Ее радикальный и неконформистский выбор является результатом ощущения необходимости освобождения от того, что она считает узким, лицемерным набором ценностей.

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is illegal and everyone must work. After a spat with her boyfriend, Carole (Laure Marsac) hails a taxi, not realizing that she has done so without any of the money or identification papers she needs. Her driver (Bruno Cremer) attempts to help her, but a variety of mishaps bring her to the attention of the police, who proceed to arrest her on made-up charges and a phoney HIV-positive result on tests given at the time of arrest.

After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows are interested in going to bed with her, including her business partner, who just might be sexually attracted to trees but certainly isn't to her. That being the case, it is particularly galling that he gets jealous at the very notion of her having sex with business clients. Eva discusses these issues (and a great deal more) with her similarly forty-ish gal-pals.

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.

This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three tumultuous and ultimately disastrous courtships. Adaptation of Louis Couperus' novel Eline Vere.

Deeply depressed Francesca is being treated by a psychiatrist to overcome her relationship with a man who also had a past relationship with Francesca's mother. After her mother dies in a strange accident, Francesca also disappears under mysterious circumstances.

Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Stan, an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive display of genitalia. It also appears that he is unable to sexually satisfy his much younger lover, and he suspects her of having another boyfriend. He earns his living tutoring students (mostly young girls) in English literature. When, in his frustration, he gropes one of the girls in her home during a tutoring session, she protests, her father (who is at home) beats him up, and he is sentenced to a jail term. There, he is teamed up with a slightly loopy murderer. When he gets out of jail, he finds his girlfriend has left for good, and ends his life.

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.

According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.

Anne-Marie Miéville, frequent collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, made this partner piece to Godard's own 'Je vous salue, Marie'. Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immersed in her books, music and dancing casts a dispassionate yet touching eye on the girl's reaction to the new upheaval in her life.

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Chantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first shown on 21 November 1984, on Channel 4. Akerman herself plays the role of a director visiting Hollywood to find financing from an uncle she hardly knows. Very little goes to plan… Also stars Aurore Clement and Colleen Camp.

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

Идущий ниоткуда Трэвис знает, что у него есть семья, но не знает, что с момента его исчезновения прошло четыре года. Неистовые поиски себя в глухой американской глубинке сопровождается гипнотической музыкой Рая Кудера. Его звезда по-настоящему взошла именно над городком Парижем в штате Техас.

In a small, gloomy town, a killer is on the prowl, forcing the residents to shut themselves away in their homes. Despite this oppressive climate, Wendy continues to receive her lover in her home and to revel in an impossible love. But one night, the dangerous criminal sees the young widow at her window and decides to knock on her door.

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing.

Это рассказ из уст девочки-подростка о ее семье, об отце, которого она боготворила и считала порой за волшебника и который однажды ночью исчез безвозвратно.

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother (Laurent Malet) jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.

Сюжет разворачивается вокруг двух мужчин, живущих друг напротив друга - шляпника и портного. Каждый из них живет в собственном мире, но втайне завидует другому, их как магнитом тянет друг к другу. Что и приведет в итоге к трагическим событиям.

Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the women are not as crucial to the men's search for an identity as the title might suggest. When the three men run into a former professor of the architect and designer, they are inspired by his fanfare and expansive nature. Still in search of solutions to their particular problems, the men head out to visit the professor and get to the bottom of their own issues. Unfortunately, the professor turns out to be more "loco" than otherwise, and the three men watch their hopes burst like a popped balloon -- it seems like their ability to assess human character should now be added to their list of problem spots.

Cannes Film Festival 1981

A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior government official, returning from an evening, has a car accident and his passenger dies in the accident. He puts the corpse in the driver's seat, but there is a witness. To eliminate this annoying witness, he calls on his David, a physicist, who wants to make it a perfect crime by quantifying the risk taken in each of its stages. And compressing it enough to make the execution of the most improbable.

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.

Во время войны во Вьетнаме спецагент отправляется вверх по реке в Камбоджу с приказом найти и убить полусумасшедшего полковника, создавшего в отдаленном районе нечто вроде собственного королевства насилия. По пути мы видим почти сюрреалистический мир ужасов войны.

In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).

American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Женщина-режиссер независимого кино, продвигая свою новую картину, путешествует по Германии, Бельгии и Франции через отчужденные пейзажи гостиничных номеров, вокзалов и кинотеатров, встречая по пути друзей, любовников, родственников и незнакомцев.

В кинотеатре идет вестерн. Среди зрителей люди самого разного плана: бизнесмены и пенсионеры, любовники, выбравшие кинозал для места своей встречи и женщина со своей материю, семьи с детьми, одинокие холостяки, студенты, ученые. По экрану перемещаются ковбои, дерутся, мстят за что-то, стреляют друг в друга. В момент кульминации действия на экране раздается выстрел, ковбой стреляет, и — в этот момент один из зрителей оказывается убитым на месте. Приезжает полиция, начинает допрашивать зрителей, многие зрители что-то скрывают и тем самым навлекают на себя подозрение. Чтобы понять то, что же на самом деле произошло во время проклятого сеанса, всех зрителей снова рассаживают по своим местам, прося их повторять все свои действия, которые они совершали во время просмотра фильма. В роковое кресло, на котором сидел убитый, садится доброволец. Кино запускают заново…

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.

Рэндла Патрика Макмёрфи, патологического преступника и бунтаря, переводят из колонии в психиатрическую клинику, чтобы установить, является он душевнобольным или нет. В клинике он обнаруживает, что отделение контролирует хладнокровная, строгая и одержимая распорядком старшая медсестра Милдред Рэтчед. Макмёрфи намерен не подчиняться абсурдным, на его взгляд, правилам и одновременно повеселиться от души. Его бунтарская натура заражает других пациентов, но сестра Рэтчед решительно настроена пресечь это.

1944 год. Провинциальный крестьянский юноша Люсьен Лакомб решает бросить тяжелую и неблагодарную работу уборщика в больнице и податься в партизаны — маки. Но туда его брать не хотят, мотивируя это юным возрастом. Волей судьбы Люсьен попадает в гестапо, где прием ему оказывается куда более радушный…