So far, Alexis's life has been a long succession of disasters and
disappointments. A failed actor with a penchant for horror
movies, he now works as a night watchman at a depot. His love
life has been as lacklustre as his professional life, until he meets
Laura. The latter uses all her guile and feminine charms to
remould Alexis, changing him from a retarded adolescent into a dutiful family
man. But is this what Alexis needs to be happy...?
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.