The Flood

In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daughter is taken with Alban. When he rejects her, she collapses. Suddenly, the river rises and floods the village. One evening, Margot disapears… This peasant drama, adapted from a novel by André Corthis and shot during an actual flood of the Rhone, was Delluc’s last. The human madness is an echo to nature’s fury, magnified by moving images of a Provence submerged by water and mist.

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Genre:

Drama

Duration:

77 minutes

Year:

1924

Director:

Louis Delluc

Cast:

Germaine Broc

Broc

Alban Perrin

Margot Doucet

Margot's mother

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