A foundling becomes a showman's salvation in 1937 France's forgotten emotional gut-punch.
Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.
Acting
Pierre Larquey's gruff tenderness carries the film.
Production
Traveling show aesthetic feels lived-in, authentic.
Director
Jean-Louis Bouquet
Pierre Larquey
Father Ballot
Robert Pizani
Maxime
Jean Martinelli
'Jac' Jacques
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Mother Ballot
Georges Prieur
Valcour
Lucien Gallas
Charlot
Ginette Leclerc
Thérèse aka 'La Sauterelle'
Myno Burney
The girl Torchon
Janine Darcey
A barmaid
Serge Grave
The young Papillon
René Lacourt
An accomplice of Charlot
Franck Maurice
The town Sergeant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Kemm directed over 40 silent films before this; La Loupiote was among his last before WWII scattered French cinema.
The 'loupiote' of the title refers to a small lamp—slang for an illegitimate child, carrying the era's brutal social coding right in the name.
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