A ragman finds a orphan, 20 years later she's crashing aristocrat parties. Class warfare with French flair.
Paris, under the reign of King Louis-Philippe. Jean, a rag-and-bone man, witnesses a murder. The victim begs him to adopt little girl Marie Didier. 20 years later, in 1846, she has grown into a beautiful young lady and works as a seamstress. One night, she is taken to a party where she is insulted by the nasty Baron Hoffmann because she was wearing the dress she had made for his daughter. Dashing Henri de Berville takes her defense.
Production
Period recreation of 1830s-1840s Paris streets.
Costume
The dress drama that launches the entire plot.
Director
Serge Nadejdine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Serge Nadejdine directed fewer than ten films; this survives as his most accessible work.
The 1924 release date places this amid France's obsession with its own 19th-century past, nostalgic escapism between wars.
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