The Crimson Curtain

Le Rideau cramoisi

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.

Director

Alexandre Astruc

Screenplay

Alexandre Astruc

Novela

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

Status

Released

Release date

06/03/1953

Original language

French