Cast: Robert Vattier

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Anton Walbrook · Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Simone Simon

Plot An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a...

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin

Plot Fanny has allowed her lover Marius to follow his desire to travel. But a short while after Marius has set out for a five year trip on a ship bound...

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Raimu · Ginette LeClerc · Fernand Charpin · Robert Vattier

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin

Plot César manages a café in the French port of Marseilles, with his son Marius. A young romantic, Marius is in love with Fanny, who runs a pavement fishmonger stall for...

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Michèle Morgan · Henri Vidal · Arlette Thomas · Louise Conte

Plot Can a person really lead a double life? It looks as though Irène can. On the one hand, she is the wife of Jacques Voisin-Larive, a big name in the...

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Fernand Charpin · Orane Demazis

Plot Several years have passed since the marriage of Fanny and Panisse. After the death of Panisse, Fanny tells her son, Césariot, that his real father is Marius, who left Marseilles...

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Fernandel · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin · Léon Belières

Plot Casimir Fabre (Jean Castan) and Irénée Fabre (Fernandel) work in their uncle’s grocer’s shop in a Provençal village. Whilst Casimir sticks to his job, Irénée only dreams of becoming a...

Direction Henri Decoin

Cast Louis Jouvet · Madeleine Robinson · Léo Lapara · Monique Mélinand

Plot Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a subway in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is...

Direction Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Annie Ducaux · Sophie Desmarets · Alfred Adam

Plot King Joan IV of Cerdagne, a womanizer, is on an official visit to France when he bumps into Bourdier the deputy which introduces him to the best places and charms...

Direction Pierre Chenal

Cast Jean Servais · Pascale Audret · Joël Flateau · Fabrice Bessy

Direction Abel Gance · Nelly Kaplan

Cast Robert Vattier · Maurice Baquet

Plot A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded the American invention of Cinerama, and used three screens to present...

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Anne Vernon · Tilda Thamar · Bernard La Jarrige

Plot Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'tit Louis, Georges' blundering but...

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Geneviève Cluny · Jean-Louis Maury · Robert Vattier

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Odette Joyeux · François Périer · Simone Renant · Jacqueline Champi

Plot France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson, has accepted to receive love letters to Hortense de la Jacquerie, the...

Direction André Montoisy · Robert Vernay

Cast Sophie Desmarets · Paul Guers · Darry Cowl · Bernard Dheran

Plot Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her...

Direction Jacqueline Audry

Cast Dany Robin · Fernand Gravey · Bernard Blier · Odette Laure

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Antonin Fabre · Roger Crouzet · Michel Galabru · Rellys

Plot There are four stories of Alphonse Daudet that Marcel Pagnol transformed into films. The order of presentation of the four medium-length is as follows: "The Secret of Master Cornille," "The...