CFS Season #18 1962-63

Bum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

A Parisian café owner believes her long-lost husband has returned but the man suffers from amnesia.

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.

We are in Debrecen in the 1890s. Mihály Nyilas, an eminent student of the local college, receives a parcel from home, which he does not open, but goes to the blind Mr. Pósalaky to read the newspaper to him. The lutrin then does the numbers the old man dreamed up. His fellow students, meanwhile, are consuming the contents of the packet, but for Misi, only his mother's letter is important. Misi then gets another job, teaching the Doroghys' son. Doroghy Bella is courted by Mr. Török and Misi helps with the correspondence. The lutrin pulls out the numbers of old Mr Pósalaky, but Misi has lost the account. This slip is found by Mr. Török, who has Bella elope. Both Doroghy and Pósalaky complain about Misi, but the student tries in vain to defend himself before the malicious committee. In the end, the truth comes out, but Misi no longer wants to be a student in Debrecen.

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

The delirious journey of a mentally-disordered man who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.

Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated because a dam is being built on the River Durance and his estate is to be flooded. He receives thirty million francs in compensation but dies soon after. Hortense, his only daughter, inherits the money but the trouble is that Félix has hidden the loot somewhere and it is nowhere to be found. All of Hortense's next of kin suddenly take an interest in the "poor orphan" and those greedy ones - with the exception of kind-hearted uncle Simon - put pressure on the girl, and try - through wile, threat and even murder, to inveigle her inheritance. But however young and frail Hortense is, she is nobody's fool.

Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

A womanizer is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room, where they talk of morals and love.

Victor takes life lightly. Jolly and offhand, he has been a very pleasant companion to Suzanne for two years now. But the young antique dealer is not satisfied with Victor's lightness any longer. She wants more. To marry him and to have a child from him for example. But the superficial young man would rather things went on unchanged. He had better beware though: François, their serious-minded neighbor, is also in love with Susan and seeing Victor shying of his responsibilities, he takes advantage of it to propose to her...

A young boy coming into puberty is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for Toni, a young girl in his neighborhood. His fascination with an antique Oriental knife leads him to steal it and he uses it to try to impress Toni while at the same time trying to break up his mother's relationhip.

A love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.

The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.

Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.