She chose passion over propriety — then learned her lover was a brother-killer using her for cover.
Nadia de Hock breaks her engagement to another man because of her love to the marquis d'Areghi. She lives a life of pleasure until Areghi reveals he is just an adventurer who has just killed his brother. He asks her to sign a letter so he can use her as his alibi. Some time later, Areghi is attacked by Nadia's guard dogs as he tries to see her. He dies as she forgives him for the pain he caused her.
Acting
Duflos's face carries entire emotional arcs without a word.
Direction
Durand stages death-by-dogs with operatic restraint.
Costume
Wealth-as-character through Jazz Age excess.
Director
Jean Durand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare surviving French silent melodrama from the transition to sound era, when studios were literally throwing films away.
Huguette Duflos was a major stage star who barely survived the talkie transition — this is one of her few preserved screen performances.
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