Cinematography: André Dumaître

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Serge Reggiani

Plot Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver recovers a...

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Roger Pigaut

Plot Scenes of life and landscape in Provence where a chilly wind called the Mistral blows down the valley of the Rhône to the Mediterranean. The Provençal terrain is dry and...

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast André Gide

Plot Throughout his life, André Gide was haunted by questions of a religious and moral nature. When he published "Les Nourritures terrestres" ("The Fruits of the Earth") in 1897, success opened...

Direction Pierre Zimmer

Cast Gila Almagor · Pascale Audret · Catherine Berg · Philippe Clair

Plot This is a story that is less a developed tale than a thumbnail sketch about imaginary events on a kibbutz in Palestine.

Direction Alain Kaminker · Raymond Vogel

Direction Henri Aisner

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Yves Deniaud · Paul Frankeur · Marc Cassot

Direction Victoria Mercanton · Raymond Vogel

Cast Danielle Casanova · Jacques Decour · Jean Jaurès · Frederic Joliot-Curie

Plot A hagiography of Soviet leader Iosif Stalin, orchestrated by the French Communist Party.

Direction Yannick Bellon

Cast Michel Vitold

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Bernard Blier · Juliette Faber · Édouard Delmont · Edmond Ardisson

Plot Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old...

Direction Louis Daquin

Cast Nuta Chirlea · Ana Vladescu · Ruxandra Ionescu · Florin Piersic

Plot Rumania’s entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Barganului. The title translates as Fools of Baragan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian...

Direction Jean L'Hôte

Cast Robert Dhéry · Colette Brosset · Didier Haudepin · Yves Robert