Director Jean Grémillon's first talking picture sees a working-class man return home from prison, only to find that his young daughter has fallen into prostitution as a matter of survival, whereupon he seeks to rescue her from degradation and danger. Striking experiments with lighting, mise-en-scène and the new sound technology enhance Grémillon's poetic realism with a well-modulated documentary immediacy.
35mm, b/w, in French with English subtitles, 84 min. Production: Pathé-Natan. Distribution: Pathé Consortium Cinéma. Producers: Bernard Natan, Emile Natan. Director: Jean Grémillon. Screenwriter: Charles Spaak. Cinematographer: Jean Bachelet. Composer: Roland Manuel. With: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Pierre Alcover, Julien Berteau, Raymond Cordy, Alex Bernard.
