Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

Alain Resnais immerses himself in the shadowy and macabre world of the 1930s French aristocracy for his 1970s biographical drama, Stavisky. Romantic, even elegiac, and very much stalked by death, this game of deception stars the legendary New Wave star Jean-Paul Belmondo.