''Thérèse Raquin'' is a 1928 drama film directed by

Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930 ...

. It is the third silent film adaptation of the 1867 novel of the same name by

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

. The film stars

Gina Manès Gina Manès (born Blanche Moulin; 7 April 1893 – 6 September 1989) was a French film actress and a major star of French silent cinema. After an early appearance in a Louis Feuillade film, she had significant roles in films of Germaine Dulac and ...

as Thérèse Raquin,

Wolfgang Zilzer Wolfgang Zilzer (January 20, 1901 – June 26, 1991) was a German-American stage and film actor, often under the stage name Paul Andor. Biography Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was employed at the ...

as Monsieur Raquin, and

Jeanne Marie-Laurent Jeanne Marie-Laurent (1 September 1877 – 7 April 1964) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films during her career, including the 1932 thriller ''Narcotics''.Youngkin p.465 Selected filmography * ''Les Vampires'' (1916) ...

as Madame Raquin. The décors of the Paris suburbs for the film were built by

André Andrejew André Andrejew (21 January 1887 – 13 March 1967) was one of the most important art directors of the international cinema of the twentieth century. He had a distinctive, innovative style. His décors were both expressive and realistic. French writ ...

. The film was produced by Deutsche Film Union in Germany, with German and French actors, in a French-German co-production, to be later released at the same time in France as ''Thérèse Raquin'' and Germany as ''Du sollst nicht ehebrechen!'' As no words were spoken, both versions differed only in the language of

intertitles In films, an intertitle, also known as a title card, is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of (i.e., ''inter-'') the photographed action at various points. Intertitles used to convey character dialogue are referred to as "dialo ...

. The British title at the time of the film's original release was ''Thou Shalt Not''. This is the last of the silent film imports distributed by

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' newly acquired First National subsidiary, containing no dialogue with music score and sound effects. ''Thérèse Raquin'' is now considered a

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, and only some production stills have survived.

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Thérèse Raquin ''Thérèse Raquin'' is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine ''L'Artiste'' in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel's adultery and murder ...

Hans Adalbert Schlettow Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje' ...

Laurent LeClaire Laurent may refer to: *Laurent (name), a French masculine given name and a surname **Saint Laurence (aka: Saint ''Laurent''), the martyr Laurent **Pierre Alphonse Laurent, mathematician **Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, amateur astronomer, discoverer ...

Madame Raquin Madame may refer to: * Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French * Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel * ''Madame'' ( ...

Camille Raquin Camille may refer to: Fictional entities * a Power Rangers Jungle Fury character * Camille Wallaby, a character in Alfred Hedgehog * a character from ''League of Legends'' video game voiced by Emily O'Brien Films *''Camille (1912 film)'', a s ...

* La Jana as Susanne Michaud *

Paul Henckels Paul Henckels (9 September 1885 – 27 May 1967) was a German film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1921 and 1965. Paul Henckels had started his acting career on the stage in the 1900s. He was well known for his e ...

as Grivet *

Charles Barrois Charles Eugene Barrois (21 August 18515 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Life Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the Jesuit College of St Joseph in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Goss ...

as Michaud *Peter C. Leska as Rolin

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* 1928 drama films 1928 films American black-and-white films Films directed by Jacques Feyder French drama films German drama films Films of the Weimar Republic Lost French films French silent feature films German silent feature films Films based on works by Émile Zola German black-and-white films 1928 lost films Lost drama films Silent drama films 1920s French films 1920s German films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub

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