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Véréna's Wedding

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Véréna's Wedding
Directed byJacques Daroy
Written byLisa Wenger (novel)
Emil Balmer
Claude Revol
Produced byFelix Beaujon
Benjamin Kady
StarringJeanne Boitel
Pierre Larquey
Gina Manès
CinematographyRaoul Aubourdier
Edited byMax Eschig
Music byPierre Vellones
Production
company
Les Producteurs Associés
Distributed byFilms Champion
Release date
  • 19 October 1938 (1938-10-19)
Running time
87 minutes
CountriesFrance
Switzerland
LanguageFrench

Véréna's Wedding (French: Le mariage de Véréna) is a 1938 French-Swiss drama film directed by Jacques Daroy and starring Jeanne Boitel, Pierre Larquey and Gina Manès.[1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Tournon. It was shot at studios in Place de Clichy in Paris and on location around the Mürren and Grindelwald. It is also known by the alternative title La bâtarde.

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Véréna is seduced by a man who then does not marry her. She gives birth to a daughter and spends the next twenty years devoting herself to bringing her up properly.

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Bibliography

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  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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