In Passy, ​​Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".

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Cast

Anouk Aimée

Hélène

Bruno Cremer

Le docteur Henri Deberle

Nelly Borgeaud

Juliette Deberle

Maxime Alexandre

Lucien Deberle

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

M. Rambaud

Jean-François Balmer

L'abbé Jouve

Christine Dejoux

Rosalie

Catherine Hiegel

Pauline, soeur de Juliette

Jean-Luc Boutté

Malignon

Jacques Mauclair

Le père de Pauline et Juliette

René Bouloc

Le docteur Bodin