Love Letters

Original title: Lettres d'amour

Duration: 92 min

Release date: 1942-12-23

IMDB

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.

Drama

Lettres d'amour

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Criterion Channel

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as Zélie Fontaine

François Périer

François Périer

as François de Portal

as Prefect Hortense de la Jacquerie

Jacqueline Champi

Jacqueline Champi

as Désiré Ledru

as Marquis of Longevialle

as Emperor Napoléon III

as Monsieur de la Jacquerie

as Monsieur de Mortemort

Jean-Pierre Kérien

Jean-Pierre Kérien

as Minister of Justice (uncredited)

as Maître Boubousson

as Dance madman

as (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

as Extra (uncredited)

Germaine Stainval

Germaine Stainval

as (uncredited)

Eugène Yvernès

as (uncredited)

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Maurice Blondeau

Maurice Blondeau

Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara

Robert Dumesnil

Robert Dumesnil

Production Design

Ghislaine Auboin

Ghislaine Auboin

Assistant Director

Dominique Drouin

Dominique Drouin

Production Director

Original Music Composer

Philippe Agostini

Philippe Agostini

Director of Photography

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