La caida de los cuerpos

Portraying French society during the Third Republic, this story follows the fall of the old guard of the clans of Schoudler and Monnerie. The collapse of banker Noel Schoudler exemplifies the end of the fortunes amassed during the 19th century and the greed of speculators who succumbed to the global financial crisis of 1929. Meanwhile, Urbain de la Monnerie, a blind octogenarian and inhabitant of Mauglaives castle, embodies the decadence of an old aristocracy that is about to disappear. By ...