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46 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

Anouk Aimée
Hélène

Bruno Cremer
Le docteur Henri Deberle
Frédérique Alexandre
Jeanne

Nelly Borgeaud
Juliette Deberle

Maxime Alexandre
Lucien Deberle

Jean-Pierre Castaldi
M. Rambaud

Jean-François Balmer
L'abbé Jouve

Christine Dejoux
Rosalie
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Élie Chouraqui directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
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