The Garden of Life and Death

Pousser (Jacques Villeret) is a respected local primary school teacher, and he has another identity - a clown. On Sundays, he would bring his belongings and perform a hilarious clown show in the troupe. His son Lucian did not understand his behavior and felt that his father's performance embarrassed him. Puze's good friend Andre (André Dussollier) saw Lucien's thoughts, so he told him about a past event. During World War II, in a small town in France, Pouze and Ander decided to become anti-war heroes in order to please a girl they liked. At night, they blew up the railway facilities occupied by the Germans and also injured an old French worker. Soon, in order to find out the murderer, the German army randomly selected four local men as hostages. If the real murderer did not surrender, the hostages would be shot. Unfortunately, Puser and Ender were also drawn. The hostages were imprisoned in a deep pit. When they were cold and hungry, a German soldier appeared at the entrance of the pit. He made various funny moves towards the four people and threw food to them. He said that he used to be a clown in the circus...