The French feature film starring
Simone Signoret Raf Vallone
Forced into a loveless and unhappy marriage, Therese finds consolation in an affair with a young Italian lorry driver. When her husband decides to imprison her in the home of a distant relative, there seems only one solution open to the lovers....
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival, Marcel Carne 's film updates Zola's classic novel of crime and passion to a modern setting while retaining all the tension and claustrophobic atmosphere of the original.
Screenplay by MARCEL CARNt and CHARLES SPAAK Produced by ROBERT AND RAYMOND HAKIM Directed bv MARCEL CARNÈ
A French film with English subtitles (First showing on British television) . Films: page 11