Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial..


Is this thing worth a watch? If you like old-school French melodrama where people make decisions that would make your jaw drop, sure. It’s a bit dusty, but the performances have a weird, crackling energy. If you need your movies to be grounded in actual human psychology, you might want to skip this one. You’ll be yelli...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Marcel L'Herbier

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"Is this thing worth a watch? If you like old-school French melodrama where people make decisions that would make your jaw drop, sure. It’s a bit dusty, but the performances have a weird, crackling energy. If you need your movies to be grounded in actual human psychology, you might want to skip this one. You’ll be yelling at the screen within the first twenty minutes. The premise sounds like something pulled out of a tabloid from the thirties. Actress gets shot by a political radical, then sudde..."
Gaston Mauger
Michel Duran, Marcel L'Herbier, Henri Bernstein
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