Géo Lastry

Dans les coulisses du cinéma, un figurant, payé avec une vieille armure, se met brocanteur avant d'épouser une camarade.

After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and a statue is even prepared in his honor.

Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will become the perfect guinea-pig for testing the prof's last find. And it works well. Too well in fact, for if Amédée tells the truth he tells it to everybody and in every circumstance, thus causing disasters around him.

A poor boy, having consented to play the role of the victim in a fake car accident story, is also invited to marry in the place of his crush who wishes to keep his freedom.

De 1789 à 1792, à Paris, dans le midi de la France, à Coblence et Valmy. La Révolution française à travers l'histoire d'un groupe de marseillais.