Antoine được xuất ngũ vì chứng bất ổn tính cách và trở về Paris. Anh gặp lại người yêu của mình, Christine Darbon, và với sự giúp đỡ của cha Christine, Antoine có được công việc ở một khách sạn nhưng nhanh chóng bị sa thải sau khi anh vô tình giúp đỡ một thám tử tư Henri (Harry Max). Vì thế Antonie được Henri đưa vào làm việc tại Văn phòng thám tử Blady. Trong một cuộc điều tra, lĩnh trách nhiệm theo dõi người làm của một cửa hiệu bán giày, anh phải lòng người vợ của ông chủ Tabard, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig). Tình cảnh trớ trêu buộc Antoine phải lựa chọn giữa người phụ nữ lớn
tuổi và Christine…
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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.