Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.

The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents. His daughter, Vera Lerins, will help Captain Derry concoct a plan to mislead the opposition. A Latin cabaret singer will play more than her two songs... and is, truly, a Bella Morena!

The entire Parisian literary scene is in turmoil: Sandra, a renowned author, has just been found strangled. Her murder is the subject of much speculation in her entourage, and some are tempted to conduct the investigation alone. All the more so as Commissioner Bartillot is obviously more sensitive to the charms of a suspect than to those of the case.

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.

It's Christmas Eve. Nicolas feels very lonely since Natacha, the woman he loves, has left him. Nothing interests him anymore. He wanders aimlessly in the illuminated streets of the city. Then Zoé, a homeless woman, crosses his path.

South-West of France. Each year on winter holidays, truffle thieves immerse the area into a paranoiac atmosphere. The inhabitants gather themselves, spy on their neighbors, accuse their friends... And sometimes in this general confusion, a scapegoat is easily found.

A family of dysfunctional puppets!

Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the south of the Drome. Unfortunately the house stands in the middle of a campsite.

Ivan Mosjoukine plays a heroic soldier to the despotic Caliph who becomes disillusioned with his treatment of the slaves in his kingdom and fights to free them. Similar to plot lines in previous Wolkof-Mosjoukine collaborations the difference with this film is that it was produced in 1932 and therefore has synchronised dialogue, something of a challenge to the film-makers since Mosjoukine, one of the biggest silent stars, spoke very little French and even when learning lines phonetically had a marked Russian accent. In Sergent X this issue was elided by casting him as an immigrant, learning the language as the picture progressed. However, whilst this worked well as a one off, it couldn't be done on every film. So in his second talkie Mosjoukine's character appears as a somewhat exotic outsider, a man of action and few words. During his initial escape from the Caliph, he dives off a cliff into the sea and is rescued by a young fisherman, who becomes his compatriot – and gets to do some of Mosjoukine's talking for him. The court of the Caliph also gets a great deal of the dialogue and there's a surprising musical number midway through the action. Interestingly Mosjoukine's real life wife Nathalie Lissenko appears as his love interest in this, and like her husband speaks relatively little. The film plays like an old fashioned English pantomime, with exaggerated villains and fawning underlings very much in the Chu Chin Chow mould. It's pleasant, expensive, occasionally exciting, with dazzling bejewelled costumes by Boris Blintsky and must've seemed completely irrelevant in a period when Renoir, Clare, and Pagnol were rapidly approaching their best work. Mosjoukine, is still very effective in his scenes, and particularly so in a climactic duel to the death with the Caliph. When he does speak, his voice is resonant and authoritative. However since there's so much for the film to show – with a musical number, scenes of slave auctions and villainous plotting from the Caliph, Mosjoukine is quite often off screen. This film was released in an original French version and also a dubbed and slightly re-shot English version... (from thomas-hamilton65@imdb)