La réalisatrice, petite-fille de Robert Hakim, fouille la mémoire familiale afin de retracer l'aventure vécue par les producteurs de "Casque d'or" de Jacques Becker.
Dissatisfied in Hollywood, brothers Robert and Raymond Hakim returned to France to re-launch their careers. André Paulvé, a grain broker, talked his way into his first production. Alexandre Mnouchkine parlayed fur business cash into a life in cinema. Larger-than-life, cigar-chomping Henry Deutchmeister built a faux 18th-century manor — replete with modular edit suites.
