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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.
- 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.
- 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...
- Engineer Max Klaar raises his tomboy daughter Elisabeth (nicknamed Peter) alone. Nora Christian, a famous actress and Max's ex-wife, resurfaces in the village where father and daughter live. Elisabeth coming across her mother takes her to Max's house. Shortly afterward, Elisabeth nearly drowns herself in the village lake but is saved at the last minute by Helga, a student vacationing in the area. The latter is not immune to the charms of Max but Nora puts an end to the fledgling romance by going away and taking Elisabeth with her. Max is at a loss... but not for long. Elisabeth soon realizes she needs her two parents and manages to reunite them in the end.
- 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.
- Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. But it is without counting a scientist who has invented a rocket, his assistant who falls down in the yard of Adonis's prison, a great escape featuring Adonis and the assistant disguised as bulls, a second abduction of the Princess - but, this time for the just cause of love -, a wild chase and a final flight to another planet!
- A badly wounded man runs through the empty streets. At a time he stops in front of a porch and all of a sudden he is shot at. He falls unconscious and when he comes to, he finds he is lying in his bed, with a nun at his bedside. At a loss to understand what is going on, the wounded man, as he is being tended by the nun that she is wearing a rose-shaped pendant necklace around her neck.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A couple of newlyweds leaves Marrakesh for the Atlas Mountains, in Berber country. They come to a little village on market day, while the local festival takes place. After attending a hunt in the mountains, the young couple arrive in a village where a traditional wedding is celebrated.
- An evocation of the childhood of the great French writer François-René de Chateaubriand at his father's château in Comboug in Brittany. The text supporting images of the château and its surrounds consists of extracts from the writer's famous "Mémoires d'outre-tombe".
- 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).
- The morning of an ordinary day rises over a big city. But the adjective "ordinary" does not mean the same thing to an "ordinary" citizen as to an maghrebi immigrant. While everybody else, up and down the social ladder, goes about their usual business, the immigrant, back from his night job, gets shunned by the others and harassed by the police for having a "dirty mouth"...
- A visit to a historic district in Paris, Le Marais (The Marsh) through its rich history. From 1240 when the Order of the Temple built their fortified church outside the walls of the city; to the 17th century, as it became the favorite place of the aristocracy; to the 19th and 20th century when Le Marais turned into a commercial area; to the mid-1950s as a campaign of rehabilitation of the various Hôtels particuliers was launched. Now this is 1962 and the film ends with a description of the Place des Vosges.
- A passenger on a train enters a compartment in which there are already six persons: a grandmother with her unruly grandson, an invading sleeper, a sporty man who deems it essential to ventilate the place even if it makes the other travelers freeze to death, a pretty but uptight young woman and a man eating sausage. Let him have a nice trip!
- 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!
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- "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
- 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...
- One snowy winter. In fact, the last winter of the 'Great Pacific' locomotives, the 'Queens of the Rails' for a hundred years, before they are dismantled. Meanwhile, they make their last runs, and both the engineer and the stoker do their job as usual but their hearts miss a beat. Soon the gentle giants they are so proud of will be part of the past...
- After a twenty-five-year career in civil service, Pluche and Ploche have become past masters at doing anything... except what they are paid for! Experts at making paper hens, at sharpening pencils and at tasting Marengo veal, the two pen pushers are also second to none at bickering and at evoking childhood memories...