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
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