La Femme et le pantin
1959 Drama / Romance   
 

Credits
  • Director: Julien Duvivier
  • Script: Marcel Achard, Jean Aurenche, Julien Duvivier, Pierre Louÿs (novel), Albert Valentin
  • Photo: Roger Hubert
  • Music: José Rocca, Jean Wiener
  • Cast: Brigitte Bardot (Eva), Betty Beckers, Denise Carvenne, Espanita Cortez (Maria-Teresa), Claude Godard (Mercedes), Jess Hahn (Sidney), Daniel Ivernel (Berthier), Lila Kedrova (Manuela), Jacques Mauclair (Stanislas Marchand), Anne-Marie Mersen, Germaine Michel (Woman in car), Darío Moreno (Arbadajian), Cadet Rivers (Man in car), Michel Roux (Albert), Antonio Vilar (Don Matteo)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Aka: A Woman Like Satan; The Female

 
Summary
In Spain, the rich and proud Matteo Diaz loves and admires his wife Maria Teresa, but she is paralysed and so Matteo must look elsewhere for his pleasures.  His wife accepts the situation because she knows her husband loves her and will always come back to her.  One day, at a Spanish fiesta, Matteo encounters a free spirited young woman named Eva, the daughter of a French collaborator with the Germans in WWII.  Matteo is violently drawn to Eva but she refuses to start an affair with him because he is too beautiful, too rich and represents everything she hates.  She will only give herself completely to him on the day he loses his fortune, his wife and his honour...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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