Overview

The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.

Genres

Cast

Erich von Stroheim

Frank Davis

Madeleine Sologne

Jeanne "Angela"

Louis Salou

Furet

Jean-Jacques Delbo

Lenoir

Margo Lion

Marie-Louise

Yves Vincent

Robert

Claudine Dupuis

Clara

Pierre Labry

Inspector Gardel

Georges Vitray

Bank manager

George Cusin

Gustave Gallet

Frank Davis' secretary

Annette Poivre

The substitute