During the war, lieutenant Hashimoto and three other accomplices, buried a cache of morphine in an air-raid shelter under a military hospital and they agreed to meet again ten years later to dig out the treasure. On that day, five people show up, but Hashimoto originally had only three accomplices. He hid the morphine late at night, so they did not know each other's identiti...
Louis Mahé, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel, whom he's never met. One day, she escapes with all his money and it turns out that her real name is Marion. She is an adventurer and, together with an accomplice, has killed the real Julie. Louis leaves for France with the idea of t...
During a fight with a group of other children, Sasha, a seven years old violinist, is defended by a steamroller driver. Thanks to the friendship with this man, Sasha will learn to face the difficulties in life. Tarkovskij's final diploma work.
Eve Peabody, a penniless ballerina who lost all her money on the French Riviera, arrives in Paris and manages to sneak into a high class party, where she is approached by Georges Flammarion, a rich noble man, who asks her to seduce Jacques Picot, the son of Champagne producers, who is flirting with his wife Hélène. To Eve, this sounds like an easy task, but the situation get...
Silvano lives in Sottomarina, in the province of Venice. He is 40 years old, has a young, nice wife, a beautiful child and a comfortable house. For a living, he is a car thief. One late summer day, an old friend of his, Mario, who is back to the village after many years...
In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
The clerk Joseph K. wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system, but since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to e...
Djamel, a twenty years old French young man of arab heritage, gets fired form his job and moves to Grenoble where he finds a job as a courier. He makes new friends and seduces the secretary of the company where he works. He tries to settle down and starts following and spying the owner of the courier company because he is sure to be his son.
Jòsef, the main character, visits the sanatorium where his parents, he himself as a child, the emperor Francesco Giuseppe and other characters lived. The allegoric entrance to the building is the entrance to the world of fantasy, a dreamlike and labyrinthic dimension. In this strange sanatorium, time has stopped, or better, time has gone backwards. Here, Jòsef can explore th...
The Zone is a mysterious region, nobody knows how or when it was formed, the authorities had it evacuated and they keep it under control impeding the entrance to anyone who tries to enter it. The Zone contains a place called "The Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. A writer, who has lost inspiration, and a scientist, who seems self confident about wh...
