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En Rade (1927)

• Director
  • Alberto Cavalcanti
• Writers
  • Alberto Cavalcanti
  • Claude Heymann
• Stars
  • Pierre Batcheff
  • Blanche Bernis
  • Nathalie Lissenko

  Originally released in France in late 1927 as En Rade. Catherine Hessling, better known to film enthusiasts for her work in the early Jean Renoir silents, stars as a seaport barmaid who falls in love with sweet-natured sailor Georges Charlia. When Charlia unaccountably disappears one day, Hessling is plunged into the depths of melancholia. Her sad story is counterpointed with the bizarre behavior of the local laundress' lazy, near-moronic son (Philippe Heriat), who dreams of a life at sea. Although well photographed on genuine locations, it proved confusing to many non-French filmgoers.