La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin
Synopsis
The film follows Thérèse Martin as she moves from the close circle of her family home in Lisieux to the austere world of the Carmel, where she joins her older sisters Pauline and Marie. In this film version of the Saints life the Devil (François Viguier) appears, before her taking of the veil, and again when she lies ill in the infirmary. This is a direct allusion to the trials she faced when she doubted her vocation, and near the end of her life when she wondered how she would die. " In childhood the great events of my life seemed from afar like mountains I could never reach. When I saw other little girls going to First Communion, I said to myself: how shall I ever reach my First Communion? Later: how shall I ever get to the point of entering Carmel? And still later: reach my Clothing, make my Profession? And now I say the same of dying. The devil is about me. I feel him near me. He torments me and holds me with a grip of iron to deprive me of all consolation, trying by increasing my sufferings to make me despair. Oh, how necessary it is to pray for the dying. If you only knew! How needful is that prayer we use at Compline: "Free us from the phantoms of the night!"
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Le Film d'Art (Vandal et Delac)
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
Full credits (6)
- Adaptation : Julien Duvivier
- Directors of Photography : Armand Thirard, René Guychard
- Assistant Director : Michel Bernheim
- Author of original work : Thérèse De Lisieux
- Producers : Marcel Vandal, Charles Delac
- Production Designer : Christian-Jaque
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Religion
- Production language : Silent
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1929
- French release : 08/11/1929
- Current status : Released
- Approval :
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Silent
