Documentary film about celebrations that accompanied the opening of the Šamac-Sarajevo railway line built by Yugoslav youth. Preparations for the central celebration event are ongoing in Sarajevo as the first train to use the line departs Šamac. The train is greeted by cheering crowds at every stop.
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died.
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community.
