The Great Gabbo
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
Personal Column
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
Les disparus de St. Agil
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
Marthe Richard
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.
The Alibi
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
Foolish Wives
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Detective
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
La grande illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Five Graves to Cairo
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
Old Heidelberg
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little about life outside the castle. When he reaches maturity, he is sent to attend the University of Heidelberg, and finds fellowshi with classmates and a blossoming love with Katie Ruder, his only friend during childhood and the niece of an innkeeper. However, political turmoil in Rutania forces him to return. War is declared. Heinrich returns to Heidelberg one last time to bid a somber farewell to his beloved Katie.
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Erich von Stroheim
Director
Eddy Waller
as
Vaudevillian
Robert Siodmak
Director
Maurice Chevalier
as
Robert Fleury
Michel Simon
as
Lemel - prof. de dessin
Serge Reggiani
as
Un élève
Roger Blin
as
Kretz, l'homme de main de Winckler
Odette Talazac
as
La logeuse
William H. O'Brien
as
Croupier
Jean-Pierre Léaud
as
Inspector Neveu
Emmanuelle Seigner
as
Princess of the Bahamas
Julie Delpy
as
Wise young girl
Fortunio Bonanova
as
Gen. Sebastiano
Otto Reichow
as
German Engineer
Anne Baxter
as
Mouche
Harold Goodwin
as
Prince Karl - Age 12
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