01 Oct 2008
Salto Mortale
Far above the ground in a circus tent, a young trapeze artist prepares himself for his first dearth-defying leap. He thinks back to his mother, who took her life eight years ago, due to him.
Devil and the Angel
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Top Billed Cast
Erich von Stroheim Frank Davis
Madeleine Sologne Jeanne "Angela"
Louis Salou Furet
Jean-Jacques Delbo Lenoir
Margo Lion Marie-Louise
Yves Vincent Robert
Claudine Dupuis Clara
Pierre Labry Inspector Gardel
Georges Vitray Bank manager
George Cusin Marcel Mérovée Doudou
Gustave Gallet Frank Davis' secretary
Annette Poivre The substitute
Eugène Frouhins Domestic
Denise Benoit 
Jean-Paul Moulinot 
Dora Doll Lenoir's secretary
Howard Vernon Furet henchman
Maurice Devienne 
Bill Bocket Circus employee
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