Max, a Parisian lorry driver, is obsessively in love with a stunning
model, but he hasn't the courage to speak to her. Luckily he has
a friend, Isidore, who is a private detective in the Humphrey Bogart
mould. With Isidore's help, Max manages to get to meet the love
of his life and soon moves into her apartment. It so happens that
Isidore lives with her fourteen year old sister, Fleur Bleue, who
becomes the apple of Max's eye. When Fleur Bleue suddenly goes
missing one day, Max and her sister set about trying to find her...
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.
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.