Marcelle Géniat
Manon of the Spring
as Baptistine, la PiémontaiseMarcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
as La mère de VictorOutwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon...
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They Were Five
as la grand-mère d'HuguetteFive unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the...
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Ugolin
as Baptistine, la PiémontaiseManon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually...
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Night Round
as Tenant of the sixthDuring Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they...
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Une mort sans importance
as Aunt AgatheA man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next...
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Mysteries of Paris
as La ChouetteTowards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years...
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God Needs Men
as Mother GourvennecThe inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow...
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Jamaican Man
as Mrs. MillerisJacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner...
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The Last Metro
as uncreditedLeaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a...
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The Unfrocked One
as Mme MorandPierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his...
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The Girl with the Whip
as Madame PonsThe daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
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Crossroads
as Mme. PelletierA wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then...
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
as uncreditedAn ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
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Here Is the Beauty
as Varbara OstovskaMelodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success...
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The Green Domino
as Mrs. de FallecAfter his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in...
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The Village of Wrath
as GrandmotherA young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens.
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Latin Quarter
as uncreditedA wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to...
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The Wolf of the Malveneurs
as uncreditedA legend about the Malveneur family tells of how their ancestor sold his soul to the devil and...
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Bonjour jeunesse
as Pietro's grandmotherAfter her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins,...
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Girl on the Third Floor
as Mme GretchikineA Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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Haut le vent
as Aunt AnnaIn 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in...
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The Man of the Day
as Alphonsine Boulard - la mère d'AlfredAlfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater...
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Trial at the Vatican
as Soeur Saint-PierreIn 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with...
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The Passerby
as Ms. IturbeA woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.
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The Blue Veil
as Madame BreuillyIn 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the...
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Crime and Punishment
as Madame Raskolnikov, la mèrePierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur....
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The Path of Honor
as Mrs. ImbertTwo twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges...
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The Sharks of Gibraltar
as Aunt MargueriteIn order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy...
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The Rebel
as GrandmotherPimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a...
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L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
as Madame ThibetTaking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve...
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Destiny
as Mrs. MorettiThis is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the...
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La Renégate
as La sorcière, sa femmeIn a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter,...
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Tête blonde
as Claire's grandmotherWhen he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it...
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White Wings
as Aunt LouiseA great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot...
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The White Blackbird
as NoémieJules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille...
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La fusée
as Marie GirbalThe rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social...
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La Glu
as Marie des AngesA young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his...
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Satan's Paradise
as La marquise d'AmaralDriven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission...
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Sowing the Wind
as uncreditedA child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The...
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The Chain Breaker
as MamouretAntoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons...
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The White Waltz
as NanyBernard Lampré, a young composer, is engaged to Hélène Madelin, a gifted intern. Jealous of...
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Oaths
as uncreditedIn the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau,...
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The Tomboy
as Tante SylvestreThe eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves...
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Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
as uncreditedPietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother...
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Jeannou
as MarcelineJeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage...
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La joueuse d'orgue
as VéroniqueRobert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the...
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