Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Albertine, the daughter of his hosts, fell in love with her and, after paying her assiduous courtship, made her his mistress. But one night, she died in his arms. He tried in vain to get rid of the corpse and ended up run away. Second, "Mina de Vanghel" by Stendhal is about Mina, a young German, who came to settle in France with her mother in 1820. Her father, a deceased Prussian general, left her a immense fortune. Courted, she falls in love with Monsieur de Ruppert, a ruined man whose castle her mother bought. But Mina does not take long to unmask the dowry hunter.
Maurice Barry
Director
Alexandre Astruc
Director
Odile Versois
Director

Alain Cuny
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

Jean Servais
Ruppert (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

Odile Versois
Mina de Vanghel (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Sous emprise60%
Cœurs64%
Not Easily Broken63%
La fille du RER58%
Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part62%
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit76%
Ali and Nino64%
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon59%
Les liaisons dangereuses58%
Plus que jamais64%
Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent69%
Toni70%
Luna63%
Maria's Lovers60%
Hôtel des Amériques61%
Blind61%
Raising Victor Vargas69%
Sidonie au Japon62%
True Heart Susie69%
Ashes in the Snow64%