A group of retired folk are exasperated by the latest strike by social
security employees. When they meet Chalupot, a former parachutist
and one-time priest who has just come out of prison, they hit upon the
idea of forming a movement for old people, the MLV. To make the
world aware of their plight, they begin to organise
demonstrations. After Chalupot gets himself arrested and thrown
back into jail, his retired companions-in-arms agree to hold-up the
social security office...
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.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.