Rhine Virgin

Rhine Virgin
Directed byGilles Grangier
Written byJacques Sigurd
Based onLa vierge du Rhin by Pierre Nord
Produced byEvrard de Rouvre
StarringJean Gabin
Nadia Gray
Elina Labourdette
CinematographyMarc Fossard
Edited byPaul Cayatte
Music byJoseph Kosma
Production
company
Films Véga
Distributed byLa Société des Films Sirius
Release date
  • 13 November 1953 (1953-11-13)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Rhine Virgin (French: La vierge du Rhin) is a 1953 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Nadia Gray and Elina Labourdette. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jacques Colombier and Jean André. The film was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location along the River Rhine, including around Strasbourg. It was part of a string of post-war films in which Gabin plays a tragic lover.

Synopsis

During the Fall of France in 1940 during the Second World War Jacques Ledru is reported missing in action. His wife Geneviève has taken over his Strasbourg-based river transport company on the River Rhine and married one of his associates. Returning after the war under an assumed name, Ledru gets work on the barge La vierge du Rhin. He uncovers the conspiracy against him by his former wife and her lover who are now using the company for smuggling operations. He is assisted by Maria, the daughter of the vessel's captain.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Walker-Morrison p.55
  2. ↑ https://www.unifrance.org/film/6361/la-vierge-du-rhin
  3. ↑ Walker-Morrison p.235

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