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Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.
Young Germaine lives a life filled with high ideals of love, faith, and purity. The novel follows her struggle between her noble dreams and the realities of life in French society at the end of the 19th century.
In Carmen, Merimee paints a picture of the Spanish environment showing gypsies, smugglers and two young people, Jose and Carmen, who are torn apart by great passions.
A documentary-drama in which London, living among the poor of London's East End in 1902, bears poignant witness to the misery, hunger, and humiliation of the lowest strata of English society in Edwardian England.