Der Teufel und die zehn Gebote (1962)

Der Teufel und die zehn Gebote: Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Françoise Arnoul, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux. 1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, decides to renounce his vows to avenge his sister. 4) God in person lands at a remote farm and works miracles there. 5) Pierre learns that his mother is not his mother, but a famous actress. 6) Didier, a bank clerk, teams up with a bank thief after being fired by the manager 7) Jerôme Chambard is invited to Sunday lunch by his friend the bishop and by dint of drinking to their friendship the holy man cannot remember the ten commandments anymore

“Julien Duvivier directs a huge and stellar cast in eleven vignettes, each demonstrating one or two of the Ten Commandments, with Michel Simon and Lucien Baroux doing the bookends. The cast includes … well, every big-name star in France or Italy at the time, with Fernandel as G*d. Duvivier is not a farceuru0026#39;s director, so the humor is pretty dry, except for Michel Simon, who could be profanely funny at a funeral and get away with it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI suspect Duvivier called in every favor, and everyone rallied around to work for the Grand Old Man of French poetic realism, except for Gabin. Itu0026#39;s not a great movie, by any means, since Duvivier was working from some one elseu0026#39;s script. However, everything that could be gotten out of it is there on the screen.”