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Dir: Augusto Genina

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?

Dir: Augusto Genina

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

The student arrives in the University City and takes apartments. Love immediately springs up between him and his landlady's daughter, who waits on him and mends his clothes. But a brazen damsel intervenes and he is temporarily fascinated. An interview between the rivals takes place and the woman gives way. The youth passes his examinations and returns to his faithful sweetheart.

Dir: Augusto Genina

Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman.

Dir: Augusto Genina

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

Ralph, the son of a wealthy banker, meets young Mimi, a modest student, at a masked ball. They fall in love. Ralph decides not to reveal his real status to Mimi by posing as a poor painter instead. They both live happily in the Latin Quarter, often in the company of their gang of friends. Until one day a Russian princess appears. The temptress has no trouble seducing Ralph. Mimi is devastated.

Dir: Augusto Genina

At the outbreak of the great war in Europe, Marion Duval, a mischievous schoolgirl, is infected with the patriotic fervor that swept over the European State in which she lives. She runs away from school disguises herself in boy's clothing, and joins the Boy Scouts. In this disguise she shares with a dashing cavalry lieutenant several thrilling adventures. In later years she makes a determined effort to renew her acquaintance with this hero of her dreams, who is still unaware of her sex. When she finally meets him once more, she finds him, now a member of his government's secret service, enmeshed in the toils of an adventuress. Taking a hand in the game, she is able to save the lieutenant from disgrace, but only after a series of stirring episodes culminating in a scene when she and the adventuress, locked together in a room, engage in a struggle for the possession of plans of importance. Naturally, her heroism is rewarded with the heart of the handsome lieutenant.

Dir: Augusto Genina

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Augusto Genina

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Augusto Genina

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Augusto Genina

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Augusto Genina

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.