Cœur fidèle
About Cœur fidèle
Marie, an orphan, works in a bar on the Marseille docks for the couple who took her in. She loves the dockworker Jean and is pushed toward the layabout Petit Paul. At a fair the two men fight, a policeman is stabbed, Petit Paul gets away, and Jean goes to jail. A year later Marie is living with Petit Paul and a sick baby while he drinks their money. Jean and a crippled neighbor try to help. Petit Paul comes back with a gun. The neighbor takes it and shoots him. Jean and Marie are left together.
Cast & crew
More about Cœur fidèle
Jean Epstein directed. He and Marie Epstein wrote the script. Pathé released Cœur fidèle, also called The Faithful Heart, on November 23, 1923. Léon Donnot, Paul Guichard, and Henri Stuckert photographed it. A 2007 DVD runs 87 minutes. The fairground fight is cut in a strong rhythm.
Themes
Look
Léon Donnot, Paul Guichard, and Henri Stuckert shot the docks and the fairground. The fight is built from rhythmic cuts.
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Gina Manès is Marie. Léon Mathot is Jean. Edmond Van Daële is Petit Paul.
- Marie Epstein, credited as Mlle Marice, plays the crippled neighbor.
- Claude Benedict and Madame Maufroy are in the catalog cast.
Scenes
- Jean and Petit Paul fight at the fair, and a policeman is stabbed.
- The crippled neighbor takes Petit's gun and kills him.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-faithful-heart)
