Cast: Nicole Stephane

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Howard Vernon · Jean-Marie Robain · Nicole Stephane · Georges Patrix

Synopsis Le Silence de la Mer was based upon a popular wartime "underground" novel by Vercours. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois French family. Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi officer who...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville · Jean Cocteau

Cast Nicole Stephane · Edouard Dermithe · Renée Cosima · Jacques Bernard

Synopsis Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Virginia McKenna · Paul Scofield · Jack Warner · Denise Grey

Synopsis Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Lucien Barjon · Lucien Hubert · Nicole Stephane

Synopsis A tribute to the scientists who pioneered the study of radioactivity. Franju uses the documentary reconstruction with actors to show the working methods of the Curies and the precarious conditions in which they conducted their transcendental investigations.

Direction Léo Joannon

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Pierre Trabaud · Nicole Stephane · Marcelle Géniat

Synopsis Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes...