Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
Acting
Arnoul's defiant stillness against Justice's booming menace.
Cinematography
Bleak Swiss farmland as emotional prison.
Director
Denys de La Patellière
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Denys de La Patellière was known for commercial hits; this rare early drama shows him wrestling with bourgeois morality before his blockbuster era.
Françoise Arnoul was a major French star of the 1950s; this role's quiet suffering contrasts with her more famous femme fatale turns.
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