The Bitch

La chienne, feature film, 1931

DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir

The Bitch

CAST:
Michel Simon (Maurice Legrand),
Janie Marese (Lucienne ' Lulu' Pelletier),
Georges Flamant (Andre 'Dede' Govain),
Roger Gaillard (Alexis Godard),
Romain Bouquet (Henriot)

SCRIPT:
André Girard,
Jean Renoir (prema romanu Georgesa de La Fouchardierea)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Theodor Sparkuhl

Synopsis:
The hero in Renoir’s first sound film is a mild bank clerk trapped in marriage with Adele, a woman with a hard personality. His only joy comes from painting, which he enjoys every weekend. One day he saves a woman from a beating by a strange man not knowing that she is a prostitute and that the man is her pimp. Maurice slowly but surely falls in love…

35 mm, b/w, 91 min