Pension Mimosas

1924. Louise Noblet keeps a small hotel, the Pension Mimosas, on the Côte d'Azur in the south of France, with her husband Gaston who is also a supervisor in local casino. Many of their clientele are luckless gamblers hoping for success in the local casino. Childless themselves, Louise and Gaston have been bringing up the young Pierrot while his father serves a prison sentence, but they are dismayed when the father is released early and comes to take back his son.

1934. Pierre, now a young man, is living in Paris among gamblers and gangsters, and he still plays upon the feelings of his former adoptive parents to extract money from them. Louise makes him return to the Pension Mimosas and find a job, but she now develops an ambiguous affection for him. To please him, she even invites his mistress Nelly to join him in the hotel. The two women soon become rivals, while Pierre accumulates debts. Louise reveals Nelly's whereabouts to her old protector who comes to take her back. In despair Pierre kills himself, while Louise has gone to the casino under an assumed identity to win the money to pay his debts.

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• Type : Feature film
• Genres : Fiction
  
• Sub-genre : Drama
  
• Production language : French
• Coproducer countries : Germany, France
• Original French-language productions : Unspecified
  
• Nationality : Majority French (Germany, France)
  
• Production year : 1935
• French release : 16/01/1935
  
• Runtime : 1 h 55 min
  
• Current status : Released
  
• Visa number : 2420
  
• Visa issue date : 02/10/1946
  
• Approval : Yes
  
• Production formats : 35mm
• Color type : Black & White
  
• Aspect ratio : 1.33
  
• Audio format : Mono