''Stain in the Snow'' (French: ''La neige était sale'') is a 1954 French
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky (April 21, 1903 – March 20, 1995) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era.
Personal life
Saskavsky was born in Rosario, Sa ...
and starring
Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French film and television actor.
Early life
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, ...
,
Valentine Tessier
Valentine Tessier (5 August 1892 – 11 August 1981) was a French actress who appeared in around thirty films during her career. She played the title role in Jean Renoir's 1934 film version of ''Madame Bovary''.Donaldson-Evans p.193
Selected fi ...
and
Marie Mansart. It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
René Moulaert
René Moulaert (1901–1965) was a Belgian art director who worked on designing stage and film sets.Thys p.316
Selected filmography
* '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1932)
* '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943)
* '' Night Shift'' (1944)
* ...
. It is based on a 1948 novel of the same title by
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Early life and education ...
. It attracted audiences of over two million at the French box office. The setting if shifted from
Nazi-occupied France
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to a fictional country under German occupation during the
Second World War
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.
[Walker-Morrison p.241]
Synopsis
Frank is brought up in a
brothel
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by his
prostitute
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mother. As he grows up he becomes increasingly criminal and violent.
Cast
*
Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French film and television actor.
Early life
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, ...
as Frank Friedmayer
*
Valentine Tessier
Valentine Tessier (5 August 1892 – 11 August 1981) was a French actress who appeared in around thirty films during her career. She played the title role in Jean Renoir's 1934 film version of ''Madame Bovary''.Donaldson-Evans p.193
Selected fi ...
as Mme Irma
*
Marie Mansart as Suzy Holtz
*
Daniel Ivernel
Daniel Ivernel (3 June 1920 – 11 November 1999) was a French film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1947 and 1981.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1920 births
1999 deaths
French male film actors
People from Versai ...
as Krommer
*
Véra Norman
Marguerite Trediakowski (28 December 1924 – 19 May 2023), better known as Véra Norman, was a French film actress.
Norman died in Saint-Arnoult, Calvados on 19 May 2023, at the age of 98.
Selected filmography
* ''The Sea Rose'' (1946)
* ''The ...
as Moune
*
Nadine Basile
Nadine Basile (1931–2017) was a French stage, film and television actress. Goble p.140 She was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1952. She was married to the actor Jean Martinelli.
Selected filmography
* '' Au royaume des cieux'' (1949)
* ...
as Bertha
*
Paul Faivre
Paul Faivre (3 March 1886 – 5 March 1973) was a French actor.
Selected filmography
* ''The House Opposite'' (1937)
* ''Behind the Facade'' (1939)
* '' Vidocq'' (1939)
* '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942)
* ''The Count of Monte Crist ...
as Le concierge
*
Joëlle Bernard
Joëlle Bernard (1928–1977) was a French film actor, film and television actress.Turk p.442
Partial filmography
* ''Lunegarde'' (1946)
* ''Quai des Orfèvres'' (1947) - Ginette (uncredited)
* ''To the Eyes of Memory'' (1948) - (uncredited)
* ' ...
as Une fille
*
Camille Guérini
Camille Guérini (1900–1963) was a French film and television actor.Biggs p.158
Selected filmography
* ''La Chanson du souvenir'' (1937) - Veit, l'ordonnance
* '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) - d'Aubigny
* ''Les ailes blanches'' (1943) - (uncredited ...
as Le commissaire
*
Claude Vernier Claude may refer to:
__NOTOC__ People and fictional characters
* Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Claude (surname), a list of people
* Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etch ...
as L'officier
*
Jo Dest
Jo, jo, JO, or J.O. may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Jo'' (film), a 1972 French comedy
* ''Jo'' (TV series), a French TV series
*"Jo", a song by Goldfrapp from ''Tales of Us''
*"Jo", a song by Mr. Oizo from ''Lambs Anger''
* Jo a fictio ...
as Un Allemand
*
Robert Moor as Le professeur
*
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska ...
as Le violoniste
*
Antoine Balpêtré as Holtz
*
Georges Tabet
Georges Tabet (23 January 1905 – 28 February 1984) was a French Algerian actor, musician and screenwriter.Goble p.141 During the 1930s he appeared frequently alongside Jacques Pills.
Selected filmography Actor
* '' A Gentleman of the Ring'' (1 ...
as Un Allemand
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
*Walker-Morrison, Deborah. ''Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
External links
*
1954 films
French crime films
1950s French-language films
1954 crime films
Films directed by Luis Saslavsky
Films based on Belgian novels
Films based on works by Georges Simenon
1950s French films
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