Directing
Swiss actor and director.
Loosely based on Balzac's novel "La peau de chagrin", the story revolves around a man who steals a small, magical figurine named Narayana.
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.
A beggar and a singer are in love with the same woman.
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Spy drama about a young dancer from a poor background in Poland who is forced by a baron to spy for him.
The naval officer Maurice de Vergnes, tired of the extravagance of his fiancée Moussia, finds with pleasure a childhood friend: Anna. Jealous, Moussia breaks up with him and Maurice marries Anna. A few years later, Moussia reappears when war is declared. She is now a spy under the orders of Howell... This is a troncated version of a longer film.
