Face au destin (1940) - film review

Drama / Romance

Summary

Jean and Madeleine are two modest workers who have fallen in love. A disastrous evening drives them apart forever, or so they think. Two years later, they meet again by chance. Jean has enlisted in the Foreign Legion; Madeleine is married to a German aristocrat. When it is revealed that Madeleine’s husband is a spy, she and Jean can marry at last.

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Credits

Director: Henri Fescourt
Script: Alfred Machard, Jean des Vallières, based on a novel by Charles Robert-Dumas
Photo: Henri Barreyre, Marcel Villet
Music: Jean Lenoir, Mahieddine
Cast: Jules Berry (Claude Davenay), George Rigaud (Jean Lambert), Josseline Gaël (L’amie de Claude), Gaby Sylvia (Madeleine Clairvoix), Jean-Max (Franz Hermann), Jean Aquistapace (Sgt. Sobiesky), Marguerite Pierry (Madame Clairvoix)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 84 min; B&W

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