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Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she encourages his advances, then she rejects him. Furthermore, there's a portrait of a young man in her room. When he offers her money her mother urges her to accept, she runs away. Some months later he discovers her dancing flamenco in a sleazy cabaret. She notices him, flirts with other customers, then with the young man from the portrait, before she starts talking again with Don Mateo. But the manager asks her to prepare for the next number. Don Mateo soon realises, that that next number is not on the stage, but in a different room. There she dances in the nude (shown!) for rich tourists. He interrupts her dance and asks her to quit. She half accepts and starts dancing in a different place. A rendez-vous with Mateo is again used to make him mad with love and jealousy. When he learns that the man in the picture is paid by Conchita to act as her lover, he gives up and decides to move to Paris with a friend. But then Conchita shows up to confess her love and they start a real romance...

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Woman and the Puppet perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Cessez le feu perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A lady adventuress sells weapons to rebels in Morocco.After she meets an imposing man, she tries to leave her past life.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her Nène.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La femme du voisin perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

The adaptation of a french novel from 1864 describes the idyllic life of a convinced bachelor, Fritz Kobus, in a village in Alsace. With help by the local rabbi, he does get married to young Suzel in the end.

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

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Young novice Beatrice left the veil to follow a childhood friend. A happy life awaits her, but the count abandons her for the beautiful Nilidor. Desperate, she then leads a life of debauchery, and one day she returns to the convent.