En 1900, en Afrique du Sud au Transvaal, un jeune médecin, Jacques Cervin, prend possession d'une mine d'or et se retrouve mêlé à la seconde Guerre des Boers, un sanglant conflit opposant les Britanniques aux Afrikaners, des fermiers d'origine hollandaise.

1983 film by Jacques Ardouin

1987 film by Claude Guillemot

A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...

On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.

A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.