Solange (uncredited)
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Chantal
Вера и человеколюбие молодого сельского священника подвергаются тяжелым испытаниям, когда он получает приход в маленьком городке. Местное общество не только не воспринимает его всерьез, но и строит против него козни. И только старый священник из другой деревни проявляет некоторый интерес…
Narrator (voice)
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
