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Paradise Lost (1940 film)

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'Paradise Lost' is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle.The A to Z of French Cinema p.181 In pre-First World War Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the war. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter.

Cast



* Fernand Gravey as Le peintre Pierre Leblanc

* Elvire Popesco as Sonia Vorochine

* Micheline Presle as Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblanc

* Andr Alerme as le couturier Raoul Calou

* Monique Rolland as Laurence Aubujan

* Robert Le Vigan as douard Bordenave

* Robert Pizani as Le couturier Bernard Lesage

* Jane Marken as Madame Bonneron la concierge

* Marcel Delatre as Le capitaine

* Les Bluebell Girls as Les girls l'inauguration de la Marie-Galante

* Grard Landry as Grard Aubujan

References





Bibliography



* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. 'The A to Z of French Cinema'. Scarecrow Press, 2009.


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