La Maternelle
1933 Drama   
 
Credits
  • Director: Jean Benoît-Lévy, Marie Epstein
  • Script: Jean Benoît-Lévy, Marie Epstein, Leon Frapie (novel)
  • Photo: Georges Asselin
  • Music: Edouard Flament
  • Cast: Madeleine Renaud (Rose), Alice Tissot (Superintendent), Paulette Élambert (Marie Coeuret), Sylvette Fillacier (Mme. Coeuret), Mady Berry (Mme. Paulin), Henri Debain (Dr. Libois), Alex Bernard (Professor), Edmond Van Daële (Pantin)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 83 min; B&W
  • Aka: Children of Montmartre
 
 
 
Summary
A series of personal disasters leaves a young woman, Rose, without money, family or home.  After the death of her bankrupt father, she finds work as an attendant in a nursery school for children in a deprived area of Paris.  Here she befriends a little girl, Marie, the unwanted daughter of a prostitute.  The bond between Marie and Rose becomes so great that when the latter decides to marry Dr Libois, the little girl tries to kill herself...