Jeunes filles en détresse

Gender: Drama

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Date of release: 10 Jan 1939

Description

Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.

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Actors	Marthe Mellot Jean Aquistapace Georges Jamin Georges Vitray Micheline Presle Milly Mathis Arthur Devère Génia Vaury Nane Germon Madeleine Lebeau René Génin Marguerite Moreno Jacqueline Delubac Pierre Bertin Sinoël Robert Pizani Marcel Lupovici Paulette Élambert Margo Lion Louise Carletti Gabrielle Robinne Noëlle Norman André Luguet Ariane Muratore Marcelle Chantal Marguerite de Morlaye Yvonne Yma Germaine Stainval Robert Manuel Michel François Gaston Jacquet Pierre Nay Monique Thibaut Barbara Shaw Claude Lehmann Merly Christiane Ribes Liliane Barnassin Hélène Bellanger Ariane Borg Victoria Carletti Jacqueline Daniel Monique Dantis Genevieve Dorlane Antoinette Ferlay Rosine Luguet Mlle Malakowsky Christiane Rombaldo Solange Turenne

Actors

Marthe Mellot Jean Aquistapace Georges Jamin Georges Vitray Micheline Presle Milly Mathis Arthur Devère Génia Vaury Nane Germon Madeleine Lebeau René Génin Marguerite Moreno Jacqueline Delubac Pierre Bertin Sinoël Robert Pizani Marcel Lupovici Paulette Élambert Margo Lion Louise Carletti Gabrielle Robinne Noëlle Norman André Luguet Ariane Muratore Marcelle Chantal Marguerite de Morlaye Yvonne Yma Germaine Stainval Robert Manuel Michel François Gaston Jacquet Pierre Nay Monique Thibaut Barbara Shaw Claude Lehmann Merly Christiane Ribes Liliane Barnassin Hélène Bellanger Ariane Borg Victoria Carletti Jacqueline Daniel Monique Dantis Genevieve Dorlane Antoinette Ferlay Rosine Luguet Mlle Malakowsky Christiane Rombaldo Solange Turenne