Screenplay: Henry Dupuis-Mazuel

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Rosanna Schiaffino · Roger Hanin · Jean-Louis Barrault

Direction Jean Dréville

Cast Françoise Rosay · Conrad Veidt · Bernard Lancret · Micheline Francey

Plot A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Vanni Marcoux · Charles Dullin · Yvonne Sergyl · Romuald Joubé

Plot King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Aldo Nadi · Jackie Monnier · Errique Rivero · Blanche Bernis

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Alexandre Arquillière · Jackie Monnier · Errique Rivero · Diana Hart

Direction Maurice de Canonge

Cast Jean Yonnel · Madeleine Soria · Raymond Aimos · Jacques Grétillat

Plot 12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Charles Dullin · Édith Jéhanne · Camille Bert

Plot In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.

Direction Ray C. Smallwood

Cast Alla Nazimova · Charles Bryant · William Irving · Victor Potel

Plot Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impoverished poet Owen Carey...