16 Sep 1928
The Docks of New York
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
A Second Chance
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.
Top Billed Cast
Catherine Deneuve Catherine Berger
Anouk Aimée Sarah Gordon
Charles Denner L'avocat
Francis Huster Patrick
Jean-Jacques Briot Simon Berger
Jean-Pierre Kalfon Le bijouter
Valérie Lagrange Manuella Papatakis La fille de Sarah
Georges Staquet 
Jacques Villeret L'agent immobilier
Niels Arestrup Henri Lanot
Paul Bellaiche Richard Caron
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