15 April 2012

Week 16: 'Voilá la vérité'

Wonder spawned in: 1926
Wondered into being by: Nadia Sibirskaia (Actor) and Dimitri Kirsanoff (Director)
Wonderspan: 2 min
To experience this wonder at its best: Click on the full-screen icon - the film has good music but also works without the sound.

This week, two minutes of the silent 1926 film Ménilmontant.

From the YouTube notes:
'Starring Nadia Sibirskaia as a French girl whose parents are murdered before her eyes; looking for love in the wrong place she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, is homeless and starving, and suddenly finds kindness in the most unlikely of places.’
I haven't been able to find any more of the film online but P. Adams Sitney's provides a bit more info at filmreference.com.  Thanks to GoldenSilents for uploading the video to their YouTube channel
 

'Voilá la vérité' ('And here's the truth') - a headline in the old man's newspaper.

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