Sansa is a free spirit, a bohemian artist for whom borders have little
meaning. In his travels, he encounters numerous people, the most
surprising being an eccentric orchestra conductor, whom he adopts as a
temporary father. Sansa begins his wanderings in Montmartre,
Paris, and soon lands up in Russia, a place where crime is rampant and
everyone is drunk on vodka. His itinerary takes in Italy, Africa
and India. Wherever he goes, Sansa is hassled by the police and
cannot resist seducing every woman he meets. It is only after
travelling thousands of miles that Sansa realises he hasn't gone
anywhere.
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
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.
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.