Angele

Angele
  • Release date: 3 Nov 1934
  • Release year: 1934
  • Runtime: 145 minutes
  • Country: France
  • Keywords: france, marseille france, abandoned woman, pregnant woman, childbirth, prostitute, father daughter relationship, melodrama, based on novel, seduction and abandonment
Plot:
Angele, the daughter of Clarius, a farmer in the mountain of Provence, lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin. One day, near the farm, she meets Louis, a good-looking young man from Marseilles who is taking a holiday there. Unaware that he is nothing but a gigolo she is seduced by Louis and follows him to the city. But Louis, who has made her pregnant, forces her to be a whore before rejecting her. A year later, Saturnin comes to Marseilles in search of Angele and finds her in a sorry state. He persuades her to return to the farm....
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