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Sinopse: Três histórias sobre o prazer adaptadas da obra de Guy de Maupassant. Na primeira, A Máscara, um velho usa uma máscara de jovem em um salão para seduzir as mulheres. No conto seguinte, Mansão Tellier, uma cafetina e suas prostitutas passeiam pelo campo durante um final de semana. Já a terceira história, A Modelo, fala sobre a paixão de um casal de artistas.
Duração: 01h37m
Data de lançamento: 29 de fevereiro de 1952
Genêros: Drama, Comédia, Romance.
O último representante de uma alta casta insiste em manter o padrão de vida de seus antepassados, mesmo vivendo uma situação cada vez mais difícil. Uma das coisas da qual não abre mão é a enorme sala de música de sua mansão. Seu amor à música e seus atos acabam levando sua família à ruína.
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Na Viena do século 19, a jovem e tímida Lisa se apaixona por Stefan, pianista famoso e mulherengo. Anos depois, já adulta, ela se entrega a ele. Logo em seguida, o músico parte em turnê sem saber que havia engravidado Lisa.
François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
A documentary ostensibly about Anna, a young drug addict taken off the streets by one of the filmmakers. Through her they attempt to explore the social issues from their hippie perspective, instead they create a revealing, uncomfortable self-portrait and inadvertently raise questions about documentary film-making.
Nelly arrives with her sick husband in a remote town in Mexico. But the hot weather does not help the sick husband and he ends up dying of meningitis. In this sudden and painful way, Nelly, who realizes that she has lost her tickets and money, ends up alone and lost in this foreign country. The only help she gets comes from an alcoholic named Georges, who she will end up discovering is a French expatriate who has not managed to recover from the tragic death of his wife.