A 1931 French revolutionary romance where love literally faces the firing squad.
In the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau, fought alongside the revolutionaries. Captured, sentenced to death, he will try everything to see the woman he loves.
Direction
Fescourt's silent-era mastery in early sound transition.
Acting
Madeleine Renaud's devastating final scenes.
Director
Henri Fescourt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fescourt was a major silent director struggling with sound; this film vanished for decades before restoration.
Karelia's 1918 revolution echoed here reflects 1931 France's own political fractures between left and far-right.
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