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Thérèse Étienne (1958)
Directed by Denys de La Patellière
Overview
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese’s family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman’s spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom’s son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
James Robertson Justice | Françoise Arnoul | Pierre Vaneck | Guy Decomble | Georges Chamarat | François Chaumette | René Berthier | Roger Burckhardt | Pierre Collet | Léonce Corne | Erika Dentzler | Pierre Durou | Guy Kerner | Pierre Leproux | Rita Liechti | Paul Mercey | Jacques Monod | Christiane Navailles | Robert Porte | Madame Schwitzgebel | Josette Vardier