Mensonges (1946)

• 71%
• 1946
• Drama
• Gaby Morlay
• Jean Marchat
• Henri Nassiet

Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives jahr uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill gold excitement. One day, Marie meets Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu, a handsome industrialist, who is in the process of leaving his verlobte Corinne, despite her being pregnant by him. It is easy for the confirmed frauenheld he is, to seduce Maria, who very foolishly thinks she has found true love. Shortly afterward Charles is shot dead by Olivier while the two men were having a quarrel about Maria. The latter, who finds the corpse, believes her husband has committed suicide. Which is not the police's opinion and Marie is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison. Annihilated by such unfair treatment and, worse, by the separation from her beloved eight-year-old daughter, she still manages to survive and to serve her sentence.