Flesh and the Woman
Synopsis
Pierre Martel is a brilliant lawyer in Paris who has fallen in love with a ravishing Italian girl, Sylvia Sorrego and they take up housekeeping on a luxurious scale beyond his means, and Pierre commits a few irregularities and is asked to resign the Bar Association. He heads for Algeria and tells Sylvia to sell everything they own and join him there. Sylvia is a no-show and Pierre, broke, with a dishonored name and having lost the woman he loves, dons the hair-shirt he wears the rest of the film and becomes a human wreck, and he joins the Foreign Legion. Pierre and his friends Mario and Fred engage in a bit of globe-hopping warfare for the next four years and are sent back to the camp in Algeria. There, they discover a house/castle near the camp called "The Last Stop" run by Madame Blanche, who spends most of her time reading playing cards. When she isn't reading cards, Madame Blanche runs a few prostitutes on the side and arranges for three ladies of the evening to spend a night in t...
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Actors (24)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Speva Films
- Foreign production company : Rizzoli Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Cinédis
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Michel Safra
- Adaptation : Charles Spaak
- Screenwriters : Charles Spaak, Jacques Feyder
- Dialogue Writer : Charles Spaak
- Director of Photography : Michel Kelber
- Music Composers : Maurice Thiriet, Georges Van Parys
- Assistant directors : Francis Caillaud, Ully Pickardt
- Editor : Victoria Mercanton
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Foreign Producer : Angelo Rizzoli
- Camera Operator : Walter Wottitz
- Production Manager : Henri Baum
- Continuity supervisor : Francine Corteggiani
- Production Designer : Léon Barsacq
- Still Photographer : Raymond Voinquel
- Location Manager : Henri Jaquillard
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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