100 minutes
5/2/1974
Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
Jeanne Moreau
as The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
Nino Formicola
as The Bum (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Milly
as Female Bum (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Fernand Sardou
as Duvallier (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
Françoise Arnoul
as Isabelle Duvallier (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
Marguerite Cassan
as Émilie (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Pierre Olaf
as Gustave, the Husband (episode "La cireuse électrique")
Jacques Dynam
as Jules, the Second Husband (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Jean Carmet
as Doctor Féraud (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
Dominique Labourier
as Paulette (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
Roland Bertin
as Gontran (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
André Dumas
as le Gérant (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Jean-Louis Tristan
as le Représentant (segment "La cireuse électrique")