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The Bouquinquant Brothers
Film / 1948

The Bouquinquant Brothers

Directed by Louis Daquin
Drama

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant …

The story

A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.

Cast

Albert PréjeanLéon Bouquinquant Madeleine RobinsonJulie Bouquinquant born Moret Roger PigautPierre Bouquinquant Abel Jacquin Mona DolMadame Leclerc Nicole Desailly Louise Fouquet Richard Francœur Paul FrankeurCommissioner Juliette GrécoNun Denise KernyInmate Paule Launay
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Charles LavialleMonsieur Thomas Louis SeignerInvestigating judge Jean VilarPriest Victor VinaDoctor

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