1935 film by Abel Gance

1984 film directed by Nelly Kaplan

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.