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L'inconnu d'un soir

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Original title

L'inconnu d'un soir

Year

1949

Running time

90 min.

Country

France

Director

Hervé Bromberger, Max Neufeld

Screenwriter

Siegfried Bernfeld, Karl Farkas, Andrés Legrand

Cast

Music

Nicholas Brodszky, Henri Forterre, Frank Fox

Cinematography

Nicolas Farkas

Producer

Co-production France-Austria;

Arta Films, Berna Donom Films

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

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. Edith, now known by stage name Marie-Ange, becomes a solo hit as a dancer and singer. In Paris, she slaps a stranger who has just offended her, unaware that the man is King Jean IV...

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L'inconnu d'un soir

1949

Hervé Bromberger, Max Neufeld