Film

L'inconnu d'un soir

1949 · 1h 30m

Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the Orient Express, which never stops at the little station across the café she works in, is forced to pull up due to a technical incident. And out of a carriage gets ... a company of dancers, who start rehearsing before Edith's amazed eyes. She meets the director of the company, handsome dancing star Harry Belmont, who takes an interest in her beauty and in her natural talent. When she leaves her obnoxious father for Vienna, Harry is absent. She nearly gets seduced by a libidinous man but, after a narrow escape, she gets a job from Treberg, the owner of the restaurant she had dined in. Treberg finds her there, hires her as a dancer and the pair soon meets tremendous success. A star is born but, realizing that he comes second to her, he prefers to vanish.

Raymond Rouleau

Nadia Gray

Édith

Claude Dauphin

Robert Berri

Lucienne Legrand

René Génin

Catherine Fonteney

Max Palenc

• Hervé BrombergerDirector
• Max NeufeldDirector
• Karl FarkasScreenplay
• Siegfried BernfeldScreenplay
• Nicolas FarkasDirector of Photography

Release date

April 8, 1949

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 30m