The Moment of truth

the moment of truth is a film carried out by Jean Delannoy and left in 1952.

Synopsis

Married to Madeleine, Doctor Pierre Richard is called with the bedside of a young painter, Daniel Prévost, who has just tried to commit suicide by gas. By giving him first aid, he even discovers with his bedside the photograph of the dying man in company of Madeleine, tenderly intertwined… the evening, Pierre asks explanations his wife. Yes, she knew Daniel eight years earlier, during a festival given for the hundredth of a part of which she was the interpreter. Daniel insists that Madeleine divorces in order to marry it. But the young woman included/understood whereas she loved her husband and that its family life had importance for her enormously. This is why it broke. A telephone call comes to learn in Pierre that Daniel has just succumbed to the hospital. The night is completed, and with it this moment of truth during which Pierre and Madeleine clashed. This death go-you it to mark for them a rebirth?.

Data sheet

Realization: Jean Delannoy
Scenario: Jean Delannoy, Henri Jeanson, Roland Laudenbach, Robert Thoeren
Adaptation: Jean Delannoy, Henri Jeanson, Roland Laudenbach
Dialog: Henri Jeanson
Assistants realizer: Pierre Zimmer, Gerard Ducal-Rupp
Images: Robert Lefèvre, Louise Holscher
Operator: Roger Delpuech
Sound: Pierre Calvet, Antoine Petitjean, assisted Guy Chichignoud
Decorations: Serge Pimenoff, assisted Robert Andre, Raymond Lemoigne
Assembly: James Cuenet
Music: Paul Misraki (Impéria Editions)
Interior designer: Rene Turbeaux
Make-up: Yvonne Fortuna
Tables and Portraits of Dany
Costumes: Michele Morgan is equipped by Jacques Fath and Jean Zay
Coiffures: Alex Archambault
Photographer of plate: Pierre the Falconer
Script girl: Claude Vériat
Managers: Andre Rameau, Henri Jaquillard
Turning in the studios " Franstudio" from April 21st to June 27th, 1952
Pulling: Laboratory L.T.C - Sound system: Western Electric
Film: 35mm - black and white
Production: Franco-London Films - Movies (Franco-Italian)
Chief of production: Henry Deutschmeister
Directing of production: Louis Canel, Alfred Stöger
Distribution: Télédis, Gaumont
Lasted: 108mn
Kind: Drama
First presentation on October 22nd, 1952
Visa of exploitation: 18542

Distribution

Jean Gabin (Doctor Pierre Richard)
Michele Morgan (Madeleine Richard, its wife)
Daniel Gélin (Daniel Prévost, painter)
Simone Paris (Mony, an actress, friend of Madeleine)
Rene Génin (the guard of the Notre-Dame church of Any Grace of the Plate of ESA)
Robert Dalban (Mr. Taboureau, customer of the " Zero of conduite")
Bound di Léo (Mrs. Meunier, the nurse)
Marie France (Simone Richard, the little girl)
Denise Clair (Mrs. Nicolas, the caretaker)
Doris Duranti (Mrs. Duranti]]
Jim Gerald (Eddy, the owner of the cabaret)
Raphaël Patorni (an actor giving the counterpart to Madeleine)
Denise Prêcheur (Rose, the good one)
Jean-Marc Tennberg (the intern)
Georges Bever (the private patient of football)
Marfa Dhervilly (the dresser of the theater)
Fransined (an actor in round)
Emile Genevois (the cyclist-taxi)
Albert Michel (an actor in round)
Yvonne Yma (the woman of the patient)
Yette Lucas (the mother of a kid)
Walter Chiari (a customer of the cabaret)
Laure Spangles (a caretaker)
Marcel Rouze (a tenant close to Daniel)
Charles Bayard (a customer of the cabaret)
Gregoire Gromoff (a tenant close to Daniel)
Jacqueline Cantrelle
Michel Rob
Jean Chaduc
Lucien Dorval
Raymond Faure
Andre Chanu

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