
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Directed by Pierre Chenal
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Cast

Erich von Stroheim
Frank Davis

Madeleine Sologne
Jeanne "Angela"

Louis Salou
Furet

Jean-Jacques Delbo
Lenoir

Margo Lion
Marie-Louise

Yves Vincent
Robert

Claudine Dupuis
Clara

Pierre Labry
Inspector Gardel

Georges Vitray
Bank manager

George Cusin
Marcel Mérovée
Doudou

Gustave Gallet
Frank Davis' secretary

Annette Poivre
The substitute
Eugène Frouhins
Domestic
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