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Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Tire au flanc perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

His aunt hopes to make this young aristocrat an honored soldier. But the colonel has it out for him.Will the new recruit be able to adapt to military life?

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become friends.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Le train de huit heures quarante-sept perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his superior, the Dean of Discipline, is also his love rival. Now, the two men are sent on military temporary duty and irony has it that in the Army the Dean is only a private whereas the mere supervisor's rank is ... corporal!

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of L'enfant de ma soeur perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Poacher Badger has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer sets out to rehabilitate and glorify the philosopher Badger. But once released, Badger demolishes in a matter of hours the prestige so laboriously built up by his liberator.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Wulschleger

Mister Darnétal is invited by his nephew Georges to the premiere of his extravaganza in Paris;but his partner (he did not marry her,even after all those years)is not prepared to accept it and he uses his best friend as an alibi ;the two pals intend to live a wild life in the capital where there are plenty of lovely girls.But the uncle discovers that his dear nephew has a fiancee ,actually an unwed mother for she's got a little kid.The young man has fallen for the star of his variety show,a coquette fickle Chanteuse who ,in the end ,only has eyes for her co-star in the show .Uncle gets angry ,threatens to disinherit this infamous nephew and marries the young mom ,unbeknown to his fifty-something partner who has come to meet him in Paris.