1938 film by Jacques Feyder in German

1926 film by Jacques Feyder

THE NEW GENTLEMEN, one of the wittiest, most sophisticated comedies ever to come out of France, describes a tug-of-war over a pretty young actress between an aging aristocrat and a young left-wing union organizer.

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

类别:剧情 影片以赌城蒙地卡罗一家专门为赌徒开设的公寓为背景。一个母亲爱上了她自己的养子。但是他的养子是一个十足的赌徒，对自己的生活失去了其他依靠和信念。他企图把自己从赌场上赢得的钱，去帮她的养子脱离赌徒的生活，然后和她安稳的生活在一起。但是，最后，她竭尽全力，仍阻挡不住养子走上自杀的道路。女主人公是法国老女演员弗朗索阿·罗瑞依饰演，她的表演自成一派。当时在西欧的表演艺术上，主要分成两派。一派是以德国的舞台表演为代表的“夸张派”，主张演员必须“夸张”，“渲染人物的情绪”以便吸引观众的注意。另一派则是法国舞台演员所主张的“自然派”，反对“夸张”的表演。罗瑞依是“自然派”主要代表人物。她在30年代后，把这一派的表演特征带到了电影界，形成了法国电影表演艺术的主要倾向。

In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted by a raging sea, they are prisoners of the lighthouse. In a rustic Brittany village, a young bride waits, unaware of the tragedy.

Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.

A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother's death and his father's remarriage which brings a new mother and step-sister into his family.

1921 film by Jacques Feyder