The Smiling Madame Beudet

A film by Germaine Dulac

  • 1923
  • 38 min (approx.)
  • 35mm, black and white, silent
A still from The Smiling Madame Beudet.

A wife stuck in a small-town marriage loads the empty revolver her husband likes to hold to his head as a joke, then spends the next day failing to unload it. Germaine Dermoz plays her, in an adaptation of a 1921 play by Denys Amiel and André Obey.

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Public domain in the US; copy posted by Trevor May

The Smiling Madame Beudet

Public domain in the US; copy posted by Trevor May. Open on YouTube

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