Sylvia Bataille

Edited from 4½ hours of unused material left over from the shooting of Jean Renoir's 1936 PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE (A Day in the Country) and donated by the producer Pierre Braunberger to the Cinémathèque Française. Re-edited for a new version, much of the film is shot with synchronised sound with Renoir's voice instructing and guiding the actors.

A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

Anthology film by three directors, "A Day in the Country", "Jofroi" and "The Miracle".

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Four French conscripts are going to go on leave with their godmother, in Provence, in the company of a comrade from the British army. But, in the absence of the godmother, the five leavers end up at a mineral water merchant.

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer.

In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.