Le Printemps, l'automne et l'amour (1955)
Directed by Gilles Grangier

Film Synopsis

For Fernand Sarrazin, the wealthy owner of a nougat-manufacturing plant in Montélimar in the south of France, life could not be peachier.  After saving a young orphan girl named Cécilia from drowning, he discovers love for the first time.  Despite the obvious difference in their ages, Cécilia is equally smitten with Fernand and she readily agrees to marry her saviour when he offers to take her as his wife.  The only fly in the ointment is Fernand's authoritarian sister-in-law Julie, a bitter and twisted woman who has always envied her brother's success and happiness.  She intends to sabotage the union by providing Cécilia with a more suitable lover, in the form of Jean, an impecunious young pianist.  The plan works exactly as Julie had hoped, and Cécilia is soon on her way to Paris with her new lover.  But, not long afterwards, she returns, thoroughly repentant.  The kind-hearted Fernand naturally welcomes her back into his life, but, realising what his sister-in-law has done, he shows the wicked Julia no such mercy...