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- Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...
- Crossover love during the Carnival of Venice. Annina, a fisher girl, is in love with Coramello, the personal barber and handyman of the Duke of Urbino, but she suspects that he cheats on her. On the other hand, old senator Delaqua, who hopes for a better position from the Duke, hides his young wife Barbara from him, insofar as Urbino is an unrepentant Don Juan. But he sends him Ciboletta, his servant, whom he introduces to him as his wife. Many other trysts take place and, of course, confusion ensues - until a happy ending in which the right couples find each other again.
- An artist inspired by his rural childhood memories captures nature's exquisite beauty in molten glass, battling dyslexia and defying critics on his way to international fame.
- This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
- After brilliant studies a young man has applied for an executive job. Now he is having an employment interview and it is no pleasure cruise. The recruiter indeed keeps interrupting him all the time asking him increasingly absurd psychological questions. So much so that the applicant winds up breaking down : he yells a volley of insults at his torturer. Against all odds, he is... hired! But...
- A young woman who attempts to commit suicide out of heartache is saved at the last second by a priest accompanying a boys'choir. The clergyman soon learns that Renate, the suicide candidate, is an operator in a Vienna factory, that she has an affair with Robert, the firm's engineer, and that she has a rival in the person of Erika, the managing director's whimsical daughter. Chance has it that the boys'choir must perform in this very factory, which terrifies Renate, who, in the meantime had been adopted by the troupe. She chooses to disappear...
- Walking in the Parc Monceau, a man is drawn by the sight of two young women sitting on a bench. One is dressed in pink while the other wears blue. They invite the man to follow them offering him an offbeat sexual experience. A very very very offbeat one indeed.
- The December traditions in five European countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands France and England. And also the key role of artificial light, designed to replace the rarefied light of the sun. Saint Nicholas, the Bogeyman, Santa Claus, the Christmas Tree, the Plum Pudding, the multi-colored candles, the Ardennes wood-fires, they are all here to bring joy and magic to children.
- Mr. Van Dyke arrives with his son to discuss the purchase of an inventor's latest creation. While they confer, Sonny, the inventor's son, takes Van Dyke Junior to the local hop where he blatantly flirts with Sonny's girlfriend.
- Everything you always wanted to know about marriage, from the strictly codified religious ceremony to the no less codified civil marriage, complete with mayor's speech, signature of the newlyweds and presentation of the family record book. To say nothing of the inevitable festivities: the wedding dinner and the ritual dance that last will into the night.
- In a small village somewhere in Normandy there is a cart wright's workshop where repairing wagons and making wheels is in the family tradition. Old Lucien Bouchard has been working there for decades, assisted by his son Louis, to whom he taught his trade. Claude, Lucien's grandson comes to the shop as often as he can. No doubt he will become a cart wright too!
- "Etincelles et vapeur" deals with the scheduled demolition of the last steam engines at the depot of Sarreguemines, a town situated in the Nort-East of France near the German border. The dismantling of the fallen queens of the rails is carried out in the former roundhouse where the locomotives are brought before being cut with cutting torches
- How to transport daily millions of commuters from the suburbs to Paris and back? Such is the tricky task the French National Railway Company (SNCF) has to complete day after day. And it does, the feat being accomplished mainly through its rapid regional express network. The film describes the way this huge transport system works, both on the side of the railroaders and the railroaded.
- Experimental film, whose images, music and editing centers around a fun fair and draws an astonishing parallel between dodgem cars, the big wheel, the boxing ring, the dance floor and bombers and missiles. The viewer is caught in a whirlwind which makes them dizzy with pleasure first and with anxiety as the film proceeds.
- An original visit of the Ile Saint-Louis, an island in the heart of Paris, one of the oldest districts of Paris. A contemporary stroller exchanges views with a a former inhabitant of the place who tells him how things were several centuries earlier. In the second part, back to 1947 with a portrait of everyday life in its populous streets.
- Ernst Loberlin, a puppeteer, walks into a police station and reports a murder. When the inspectors arrive on the crime scene they are amazed to find that the two victims are ... puppets! Back in the police station, the two policemen are determined to interrogate the puppeteer, but a bad surprise awaits them ...
- Documentary in four chapters: 1)The prehistoric man and the forest : fire control/logging made easier after the discovery of metal tools 2)Man and toil: the woodcutter/the barrel maker/the clog maker/the wooden toymaker 3)Walking along forest paths: walking through the forest as the seasons go by 4)Nocturne: night falls on the forest.
- Rather comprehensive study of the Provence region ranging from a visit to two cities with a rich historic past (Arles and Avignon) to a report on the Lake of Serre Ponçon (and its dam under construction) to the Etang de Berre (generating thriving industrial activities).
- A married couple lives in a remote cabin deep in the forest. He is a woodcutter. She remains alone all day long performing the daily chores. Boredom has set in. He is a silent taciturn man who devotes himself to his work - a hard and exhausting work. She contemplates going away. When she does leave the marital home she ends up coming back and resumes her monotonous life.
- The film follows the River Loire from its sources in the Mont Gerbier de Jonc in Ardèche to the Loire Estuary where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. In between we will have visited such different landscapes as mountains, valleys, big cities, charming villages, minefields, châteaux, vineyards, shipyards...
- In the wee hours of a winter morning, a tiny circus arrives in a village in the Verdun region. Its two members, a clown and a female trapeze artist, set about installing the ring and hope to rally as many spectators as can be. But as the clown advertises for the night act he has the unpleasant surprise to discover that a theatrical performance is slated to be given this very night, featuring a dozen villagers as actors and actresses. The clown and the trapeze artist rehearse just in case but a single little boy - enthusiastic but alone - comes to see them. And in the evening there is no one around the ring. The two disillusioned artists resign themselves: they will have to cancel the performance. What they did not expect is that one their little performing dogs would escape and take refuge in the village just as the people left the Community Hall where the "Eugénie Grandet" had taken place...
- The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequences for public health, with diseases like silicosis, inherent in various human activities, some of which are detailed (farming, notably the treatment of flax; industrial activity, particularly porcelain and cement work, coal mining).
- This is 1945 and thanks to air travel, Algeria and Algiers have become (at least this is what the commentary claims), part of the Parisian suburbs. Algiers is really a must-see destination with its wide boulevards, its modern buildings on the one hand and its picturesque Moorish quarters, including the mysterious Casbah, on the other hand. Not so far away from the capital of the French colony, there are treasures like the turquoise sea coast, the mountains of Kabylia or the freshness of desert oases. So, just go and buy your air ticket, you won't forget the experience.
- Danger on the road is explained to two riders by several French top level athletes: Mady Moreau, a diving champion; Charles Rigoulot, a champion weight-lifter and car racer; Robert Varnajo, a racing cyclist; Robert Villemain, a boxing champion.
- Four filmed songs linked together by a comedy act by cabaret artist Jean Rigaux and the presence of Denise Prévost, Howard Vernon and Rita Stoya. The songs are performed by the already famous Line Renaud, by operetta and middle of the road popular singer Jean Patart, by Lysette Jambel, a singer of the 1950s who divided her career between children's songs and music hall and Nicole Peck, whose career remains obscure.