Faubourg Montmartre (1931)
Directed by Raymond Bernard

Comedy / Drama

Film Synopsis

Céline and Ginette Gentilhomme live on the sixth floor of a building in Montmartre, Paris.  Their father, a travelling salesman, is often away from home.  Ginette is the more respectable of the two sisters; she works for a fashion shop.  Meanwhile, Céline is under the influence of a good-for-nothing named Dédé, who is involved with drugs trafficking and other sordid crimes.  Ginette is secretly in love with one of her neighbours, Frédéric Charençon, a decent young man, but he succumbs to the charms of another woman, a beautiful stage actress, Irène...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Raymond Bernard
  • Script: Raymond Bernard, Henri Duvernois (novel)
  • Music: André Roubaud
  • Cast: Gaby Morlay (Ginette Gentilhomme), Line Noro (Céline Gentilhomme), Florelle (Irène), Pauline Carton (Tante Aurélie), Nadine Picard (Fernande), Odette Barencey (Mme Elise), Ketty Pierson (Louise), Henriette Leblond (Mme Chouya-Barca), Charles Vanel (André Marco, dit Dédé), André Dubosc (M. Gentilhomme), Antonin Artaud (Follestat), Ziboulski (Le client), Dimitrieff (L'étranger), Pierre Bertin (Frédéric Charençon), Paul Azaïs (Un client de Dédé), Raymond Cordy (Le boulanger du village), Robert Tourneur (Le gérant), Mercédès Brare, Cécile Debeauvais, Sylvette Fillacier
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 115 min

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