Marcel Duhamel

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.

A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of the accomplices is repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who have died abroad and smuggling the drugs. A race is waged between the police and the culprits: the law triumphs.

This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.

Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.

A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.

Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.