She heard the murder. She saw nothing. Then her eyes opened—and so did her mouth.
Robert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the tragedy, Veronique was injured while rescuing her boss and remains blind. Later, cured by an operation, she denounces the criminal whose voice she recognized and who had taken over the factory.
Acting
Marcelle Géniat's blind scenes feel unsettlingly real.
Direction
Roudès builds dread from factory noise and shadows.
Director
Gaston Roudès
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1936 France: Popular Front rising, workers organizing, films suddenly obsessed with factory injustice. This is propaganda with plot.
Gaston Roudès made dozens of rural French melodramas; this urban turn was rare and reportedly rushed in production.
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