Boissière (1937)
In 1914, during the First World War, the rich chatelaine de Boissière, with a sulphurous past, took in Jean le Barois, a young soldier lost in territory occupied by the Germans, who was none other than the son of the man she loved, then ruined. The young man, after having despised her, falls madly in love with the woman who pushed his father to suicide.
- Date of release
- 1937-05-27
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Fernand Rivers
Casting
- Spinelli — Adlone Hébert
- Pierre Renoir — General Baron von Hubner
- Suzanne Desprès — Catherine Vandehove
- Lucien Nat — Jean Le Barois
- Pauline Carton — Estelle
- Andrée Ducret — Madame Le Barois
- Augustine Prieur — Françoise Faget
- Paulette Élambert — Little Lucile
- Ducellier — Mother Thérèse
- Marie Marcilly — Old woman
- Jean Yonnel — Hector Le Barois
- Serge Grave — Little Jean
Interesting facts
Boissière is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Fernand Rivers and starring Andrée Spinelly, Pierre Renoir and Suzanne Desprès. It is an adaptation of the 1935 novel of the same title by Pierre Benoit. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.
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