Godless Men

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

Wander is working as an engine operator on a cargo-ship. When he takes a coffee-break, a woman appears in a talkshow on TV. In an instant, Wander recognizes her to be his long lost girl-friend Zelda from childhood days some 20 years ago. In these days, Wander used to live in a boarding-school. From his room window, he can see the house on the opposite river bank where Zelda lives. She's a really adorable young beauty, but she's less affected than one should think, and so Wander gets his chance. They are having a good time until one day when Wander finds Zelda's father in the school kitchen making love to the kitchen maid. Things turn out bad for most of the characters involved, but there's an open end.

Barney O'Hara, a boxer retired from the ring because of bad eyes, settles in a small town with his nephew Chip. Chip adopts a stray dog he names Ginger (played by "Napoleon"), but pompous town mayor Hector Tillford, who dreams of having a town park named after him, doesn't like dogs to begin with and his feelings aren't improved after Ginger bites him. He has the dog locked up but Johnny frees him and the police are scouring the countryside looking for the pair. But the mayor's pampered son injures his leg and is rescued by Ginger, and Ginger becomes a valued member of the community.

Sevket is a successful attorney, happily married and father of a daughter. Shadows cast on his happy family life as his client Leyla seduces him. He leaves home and lives a terrible life. As Leyla cheats on him, Sevket wants to kill her. He kills her lover and is jailed. His wife dies and his daughter Sevgi falls in the hands of Leyla who runs a brothel. On his release, Sevket finds the trace of Sevgi and Leyla. He kills Leyla and saves his daughter. The court sets him free however, in the end the old man gets back his daughter and happiness.

Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.

The film tells the story of Alphonso, a man who chooses to suffer a slow, torturous life in his little village, in preference to fortunes and pleasures away from it.