Beating Heart (1940)
Battement de cœur
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
- Date of release
- 1940-02-01
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Henri Decoin
Casting
- Danielle Darrieux — Arlette
- Claude Dauphin — Pierre de Rougemont
- André Luguet — Count d'Argay, ambassador
- Junie Astor — Countess Florence d'Argay
- Charles Dechamps — Baron Dvorak
- Roger Blin — (credit only)
- Sylvain Itkine — The first thief
- Pierre Feuillère — The second thief
- Jean Hébey — Ponthus
- Julien Carette — Yves Calubert
- Jean Tissier — Roland Médeville
- Saturnin Fabre — Aristide
Interesting facts
Beating Heart is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin and André Luguet. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film' sets were designed by the art directors Léon Barsacq and Jean Perrier. It was inspired by the 1939 Italian film Heartbeat. The film was remade in Hollywood as Heartbeat in 1946 starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone.
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