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Flesh and the Woman

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Original title

Le grand jeuaka

AKA

Card of Fate

Year

1954

Running time

100 min.

Country

France

Director

Robert Siodmak

Screenwriter

Jacques Feyder, Charles Spaak

Cast

Music

Maurice Thiriet, Georges Van Parys

Cinematography

Michel Kelber

Producer

Co-production France-Italy;

Rizzoli Film, Speva

Genre

Drama. Adventure. Romance

Synopsis

Pierre Martel is a brilliant lawyer in Paris who has fallen in love with a ravishing Italian girl, Sylvia Sorrego and they take up housekeeping on a luxurious scale beyond his means, and Pierre commits a few irregularities and is asked to resign the Bar Association. He heads for Algeria and tells Sylvia to sell everything they own and join him there. Sylvia is a no-show and Pierre, broke, with a dishonored name and having lost the woman he loves, dons the hair-shirt he wears the rest of the film and becomes a human wreck, and he joins the Foreign Legion. Pierre and his friends Mario and Fred engage in a bit of globe-hopping warfare for the next four years and are sent back to the camp in Algeria. There, they discover a house/castle near the camp called "The Last Stop" run by Madame Blanche, who spends most of her time reading playing cards. When she isn't reading cards, Madame Blanche.

Awards: 1954: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

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Flesh and the Woman

1954

Robert Siodmak

6.0

(25)