Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
Acting
Corinne Luchaire's trembling resolve as Claire.
Direction
Moguy's unsentimental gaze at impossible choices.
Director
Léonide Moguy
Annie Ducaux
Catherine Lafont
Marguerite Pierry
Marguerite Angel
Corinne Luchaire
Claire Buisson
Jacques Copeau
Juge Brissac
Armand Bernard
Le greffier
Raymond Rouleau
Michel Lafont
Claude Dauphin
Gérard
Roger Duchesne
Robert
Marcel Dalio
L'usurier
Pauline Carton
Pauline
Léon Belières
Buisson
Léon Arvel
L'avocat
Eddy Debray
Le médecin
Claire Gérard
La veuve Rabas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before France outlawed abortion entirely in 1939, the film's frank depiction of unwanted pregnancy was already controversial—and soon legally impossible.
Corinne Luchaire was a Vichy regime darling; her career collapsed after Liberation, making her performance here a strange echo of Claire's own social exile.
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