Whirlpool of Fate
About Whirlpool of Fate
On a canal in late nineteenth-century France, Virginia Rosaert falls in and her father, a barge worker, dies in the accident. Left poor, she steals and then teams with the thief Jef. Villagers decide she is an arsonist. They set fire to her gypsy wagon and dance around it.
Cast & crew
More about Whirlpool of Fate
Jean Renoir directed and produced. Pierre Lestringuez wrote the script and plays Jef. Catherine Hessling plays Virginia. Jean Bachelet and Alphonse Gibory photographed. The film runs 71 minutes and was released in April 1925.
Themes
Look
Jean Bachelet and Alphonse Gibory shot the canal, the thefts, and the burning wagon.
Preservation
French copies are lost. English-language prints with a complete set of intertitles survive.
Notes
- Pierre Renoir, the director's brother, plays a farmer. Painter André Derain plays the owner of the Bon Coin.
- Charlotte Clasis plays Madame Maubien. Pierre Champagne plays Justin Crepoix. Harold Levingston plays Georges Raynal.
- No French release print is known. Copies with a full set of English intertitles survive, and those titles have been translated back into French.
- The French title is La Fille de l'eau. English-language copies also call it The Girl of the Water.
Scenes
- Virginia falls into the canal and her father dies.
- Villagers dance while her wagon burns.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-whirlpool-of-fate)
