Made of Gold . . .

The true greatness of "Les Enfants" lies firstly in its convincing reconstruction of a fascinating place and time-Paris in the 1840's. The Parisian mob of the time is given a personality, naive, lovable, excitable fickle. "They are poor but they are made of gold" says the manager of the Funambules. They crowd the boulevards, dance halls and theatres: they are real, not as individuals but collectly, and they not only form a background but they are also important actors in the drama. They are the children of the Gods after whom the film is named.

The main actors move among the crowd—Garance, a woman of most fascinating Florentine .beauty, French cousin of Carmen without the Spanish woman's passionate gypsy nature, and the four men who love her and whose lives She transforms.