"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Bubeník Krab") je přezdívka pro tajemnou ústřední postavu Willsdorffa (Jacques Perrin), Alsasana, jehož osudovou, zastaralou kariéru připomínají příběhy tří námořních důstojníků, kteří právě slouží na palubě francouzské zásobovací lodi v severním Atlantiku.
Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.
Philip Damrémont se v roce 1978 rozjel do Zaire, kde měl pracovat. Brzy poté, co dorazil na místo, v zemi vypuklo povstání. Pro evropskou komunitu, v níž měl mladík nadále žít, tím začalo téměř nekonečné období hrůzy. Při bojích vzbouřeneckých jednotek s pravidelnou armádou někteří běloši unikli smrti spíš zázrakem, řada dalších zahynula. Philipovi se sice podařilo najít úkryt u přátel, jeho život byl však stále ohrožen...
Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.
In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.
A chance encounter on a park bench in early spring. Two takes on waiting and love.
Jérôme and his wife Monika head for the mountains for a hunting weekend with their friend Stanislas, an inveterate seducer, and his latest conquest, Betty. Even before they arrive, Jérôme overhears a tender gesture between his wife and Stanislas.