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La Belle Nivernaise

Jean Epstein Drama 1924 France 1h09m

Bargeman Louveau finds an abandoned boy, Victor, and with the authorities permission takes him back to his own family where he raises him. 10 years later Victor and Louveau's daughter Clara have fallen in love, and it is then that Louveau is called to Paris, where it has been discovered that Victor is really the son of Maugendré, a charcoal shipper on the Nivernaise canal.

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Cast & Crew

Rights owner | Pathé International

Directors | Jean Epstein

Producers |

Writers | Alphonse Daudet, Jean Epstein

Cast | Blanche Montel, Marie Lacroix, Maurice Touzé, Pierre Hot

DOP | Léon Donnot