Max de Rieux

A thousand-franc bill passes from the pocket of an old rentier into the purse of an obscure star, then into the hand of a gigolo, back to its first owner, back to the star and ends its round in a dustbin, scorned by a beggar.

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No longer able to bear to see himself age, doctor Faust decides to put an end to his life. But just as he’s about to swallow the poison that will kill him, the Devil enters the stage and makes him a deal. If Faust gives him his soul, he will be young again. The interested party ends up accepting and the puppets can begin their humorous reading of Faust’s myth.

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A good-natured ostrich breeder gets into trouble through the fault of a family of wealthy foreigners who give him a hard time. Because of them, he loses his fortune, resumes it, goes through countless adventures, always followed like a shadow by his faithful servant.

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A poor relative, cousin Bette is cast aside by a wealthy family. Embittered and jealous, she devotes herself to the systematic destruction of those around her. Max de Rieux's adaptation takes the decision to return to the initial meeting of the Hulot couple as if to show the degradation of the pure feelings and sublime aspirations of youth in bloody competition and irresistible perversion in materialist society.

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Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.

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Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort town of Biarritz. Meanwhile, he gets involved in the romantic life of his son who is studying to be an engineer in London.

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Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, the garage owner. Fortunately, Gus, his childhood friend refuses to follow the pack and talks his mother, the richest person in the area, into getting him a job. But Yan is soon drawn to Maria, the sultry girl Gus lives with.

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