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Dir: Raymond Bernard

Max is a millionaire who is forced to lead a double-life as a waiter, the result of having lost a wager.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Tartarin de Tarascon perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip. Initially reluctant, he is eventually convinced by his friend Bravida, who warns him about the growing shame the delay has caused him all across town. Tartarin meets an ex-convict on the train who calls himself a Prince and offers to travel with him to Algeria, in the hope of stealing his money with the help of a girl, Baïa. Tartarin leaves for the desert and as soon as the first lion is in sight, the "Prince" escapes with his money. Tartarin shoots the lion and gets arrested by the local police because the animal was a blind sacred lion. He is condemned to pay a fine for which he must sell his weapons since his money was stolen. He sends the lion skin to Tarascon, and after having learned the truth about Baïa and the Prince, Tartarin, feeling stupid, decides to go back home. Expecting to have to move to another town, he is surprised at the station by all the inhabitants, anxious to meet the lion killer they are so proud of.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

Wealthy Count, a passionate mountaineer, made a will in favor of his goddaughter. His niece and her husband decide to kill him, forced him to fall into a ravine. Six months later, the Count reappears, repaying everyone.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Le ravin sans fond perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Wooden Crosses perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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 the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Faubourg Montmartre perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Emperess Catherine II wants to get rid of Princess Elisabeth Tarakanova who is to replace her on the throne of Russia. She asks Prince Orloff to travel to Venice so he can seduce Elisabeth and bring her back to Russia. Orloff and Tarakanova fall in love.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

A ruined young man makes people believe in the middle class that he is a thug. He will meet love by collecting important documents from this woman's lover.

Dir: Raymond Bernard

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.