Antoine Doinel wird unehrenhaft entlassen aus dem Militärdienst und ist nun auf sich allein gestellt. Als er seine Jugendliebe und Freundin Christine besuchen will, muss er zwar zunächst feststellen, dass sie momentan verreist ist, andererseits verschafft ihm deren Vater eine Anstellung als Portier. Diesen Job im Hotel verliert Antoine aber rasch wieder durch einen Privatdetektiv, der für die Lösung eines Auftrags die Unerfahrenheit des neuen Portiers zu nutzen weiß.
Romanverfilmung des Bestsellers Balzac und die kleine chinesische Schneiderin durch den Autor selbst, Daï Sijie. Der Film handelt von der Liebe zweier junger Chinesen während der Kulturrevolution zu einer jungen Schneiderin.
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is in deeply in love to another woman.
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel
Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of La Comedie Humaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival the same year.