Boissière (1937)

7.0/10 91 min Drama War

Overview

In 1914, during the First World War, the rich chatelaine de Boissière, with a sulphurous past, took in Jean le Barois, a young soldier lost in territory occupied by the Germans, who was none other than the son of the man she loved, then ruined. The young man, after having despised her, falls madly in love with the woman who pushed his father to suicide.

Cast

Pierre Renoir

General Baron von Hubner

Suzanne Desprès

Catherine Vandehove

Jean Yonnel

Hector Le Barois

Serge Grave

Little Jean

Rivers Cadet

Estève

Jean Périer

Charles Le Barois

Ernest Ferny

Walrand

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