Maurice Failevic

French current affair show

A man creates trouble in the company he works because he wants to be fired. He gets a promotion.

The story of a small village in Touraine between 1788 and 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, with its lord, its wealthy peasants, and its poor. The wealthy peasants, expelled from the communal pastures by the count, take him to court. Guillaume Coquard joins the other villagers in drafting the cahiers de doléances (lists of grievances). On the eve of the convocation of the Estates General, the village loses its lawsuit. On the night of August 4, 1789, the deputies vote to abolish privileges. The peasants will be able to buy them back. But the poorest wonder: with what?

A highly qualified worker, exercising his trade as an artist, sees his family and professional life turned upside down by the installation of a robot machine in his workshop.

Yvon Dikkebush is a café owner in northern France. His clientele consists mainly of workers from the factory located opposite his establishment. Following the announcement of layoffs, a strike breaks out and the factory is occupied.

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Ali, a young Algerian who carried out an attack in Algiers, hastily leaves the city to join the resistance. But he is disappointed to find that the National Liberation Army consists of only a few fighters scattered throughout the mountains. However, he is impressed by the authority of the leader, Si Tayeb, who gives him a weapon. Meanwhile, a young French sergeant, Gachon, arrives in Algeria with his contingent of conscripts. In civilian life, he is a schoolteacher, and he becomes the colonel's secretary. One night, the FLN group invades a village, the dechra of Beni Allel: waking the inhabitants, the leader gives them a propaganda speech to incite them to fight the French, then gives them weapons; He claims that all the other villages have rallied to their cause, which is false. When he finds himself in difficulty at one point, he is rescued by Ali, who saves the day with his authority and skill.

An old cowherd from Haute-Savoie who continues to raise his animals, according to the old methods, falls in love with a young shepherdess.

Between the two World Wars, Manuel, a young man, is back in his Haitian village. What he discovers is appalling. The village is now separated into two enemy clans. To make matters worse, it is devastated by drought as all the springs have dried up. The sun scorches the earth. Manuel decides to go in search of water and winds up finding a spring.

Jobless after their boss fled, workers from a textile factory plan on blowing up everything if the government refuse to help them.

Georges Gauthier, the young vicar of a small village in the North of France, experiencing the emptiness of his ministry, decides the follow the local youngsters, who almost all go to town to find work there. To go on being with the vital forces of his village, he decides to take a job of a steelworker. Georges settles down in a suburb, sharing an apartment with a priest-worker, older than him. What he hopes is to give a new meaning to his vocation by living the same life as the workers of a steel plant...

During the dry season in a small village, a road worker innocently gets mixed up in a struggle for water between two clans .

Old Léon owns the best vineyards in the village. When he dies, everyone is wondering who will inherit his land. In accordance with the deceased's wishes, the mystery will only be revealed at the end of the grape harvest. In the meantime, speculation is rife and threatens to turn wine into blood.