The Emigrant (French: L'émigrante) is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Edwige Feuillère, Jean Chevrier and Georges Lannes. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert-Jules Garnier.
Synopsis
Christiane runs a bar in Antwerp which is frequented by the smuggler Tino. After killing a customs officer, he steals her jewellery and flees. She informs on him to the police, but he manages to escape and comes looking for revenge against her. She joins a group of emigrants leaving on a ship for South Africa as a stowaway. Hiding in the cabin of one of the crew, she gradually falls in love with him.
Cast
Edwige Feuillère as Christiane Vallier
Jean Chevrier as François Champart
Georges Lannes as Tino
Foun-Sen as L'Annamite aux béquilles
Palmyre Levasseur as La religieuse de l'hospice de Lisbonne
Jacques Vitry as Le commissaire
Edmond Van Daële as Un émigrant
Philippe Richard as Le médecin-chef
Serge Nadaud as Un officier
Marcel Pérès as Gaston - un émigrant
Marcel Duhamel
Duluard
Robert Brunet
Paul Lluís
Génia Vaury as Madame Vermeersch
Hélène Dassonville as Eliane
Gaston Jacquet as Un officier
Roger Capellani as Un émigrant
Emile Saulieu
Jean d'Yd as L'ingénieur-chef
Åke Engfeldt as L'émigrant suédois
Pierre Juvenet as Le représentant de la compagnie
René Charles
Maurice Marceau
Roger Bontemps as Vermeersch
Pierre Larquey as Monrozat
Raymond Aimos as Un employé du bateau
Charles Bouillaud
Bernard La Jarrige as Le journaliste
Frédéric Mariotti as Un émigrant
Robert Ozanne as L'ami de Tino
Forde Willis as L'architecte
References
Bibliography
Monaco, James. The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books, 1991.