Armen Godel

Fond de l’Etang, Fransa’da bir sayfiyede sorunlu erkek çocukları için eğitim veren bir yatılı okuldur. 20. yüzyılın ortalarında, egoist, disiplin delisi bir müdür olan M. Rachin tarafından yönetilmektedir. Felsefesi aksiyon-reaksiyon şeklindedir. Ancak onun sistemi asi yaradılışlı çocuklar üzerinde hiçbir işe yaramamakla beraber ters tepkiye neden olmaktadır. Bir gün okula M.Clement Mathiue adında yeni bir eğitmen gelir. Orta yaşlardaki bu adam hayatı boyunca birçok şey için çabalayıp hayattaki yerini bulmaya çalışmış biridir. Her ne kadar çocukları ziyadesi ile haylaz bulsa da M. Rachin’in fikirlerine inanmaz. Tek çare en iyi bildiği aracı kullanmaktır. Müzik her derde deva olabilecek evrensel bir güçtür nihayetinde. Okul dahilinde kurduğu koro ile herkesin hayata bambaşka bir pencereden bakmasını sağlayacaktır.

A man is consumed by an increasingly all-consuming madness that drives him to identify with Adolf Hitler. His insanity pushes him to physically imitate the dictator, and even to build a bunker with the intention of spending the rest of his days there...

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.

A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.

After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.

A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there.

Criminals Rayner and Simon organize a diamond heist, but are outsmarted by Jean and Rémy, two aspiring crooks.

An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.

Aleksey and Katerina separated twenty years ago. He left for the West, she stayed in the East. They will meet again in Switzerland under troubling circumstances.