
1942 · Claude Autant-Lara · 92 min
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Odette JoyeuxZélie Fontaine
François PérierFrançois de Portal
Simone RenantPrefect Hortense de la JacquerieJacqueline ChampiMarinette
Jean ParédèsDésiré LedruAriane MuratorCharlotte
André AlermeMarquis of Longevialle
Julien CaretteLoriquet
Jean DebucourtEmperor Napoléon III
Robert ArnouxMonsieur de la Jacquerie
Louis SalouMonsieur de Mortemort
Yves DeniaudMayor
Georges PallyDaronne
Jean-Pierre KérienPostillionMartial RèbePresident