Baccara 1935
A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.
A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.