Marthe Richard

Original title: Marthe Richard au service de la France

1937
1h 35m

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The fictionalized story of Marthe Richard ,a spy in WW1.The fictionalized story of Marthe Richard ,a spy in WW1.The fictionalized story of Marthe Richard ,a spy in WW1.

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Edwige Feuillère

Marthe Richard

Délia Col

Mata-Hari
(as Délia-Col)

Marthe Mellot

Madame Richard, la mère de Marthe

Liliane Lesaffre

La tenancière
(as Lesaffre)

Erich von Stroheim

Le baron Erich von Ludow

Jean Galland

von Falken

Marcel André

Le commandant Rémont

René Bergeron

L'agent français déguisé en prêtre
(as Bergeron)

Marcel Dalio

Pedro
(as Dalio)

Fernand Bercher

André, le fiancé de Marthe
(as Bercher)

Christian Argentin

Un amiral
(as Argentin)

Georges Saillard

Un général
(as Saillard)

Pierre Juvenet

Un parlementaire
(as Juvenet)

Jacques Berlioz

Le président de la cour martiale
(as Berlioz)

Joffre

Charles Richard, le père de Marthe

Lucien Blondeau

Le chef du deuxième bureau allemand
(as Blondeau)

Jacques Henley

Le conseiller de l'Empereur
(as Henneley)

Ernest Ferny

Le commandant du sous-marin
(as Ferny)

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Marthe Richard's work as a spy is forgotten today in France and she's mainly remembered for a famous law which closed the brothels after WW2;Marthe was a former prostitute herself.

Raymond Bernard's work has not worn well and ,if it weren't for Erich Von Stroheim and Edwige Feuillère,it would have sunk into oblivion .There's in this undistinguished flick one good scene : when Feuillère is pretending she's going to kill Von Stroheim.Spy Mata -Hari is also featured ,and a brief scene shows her execution.

Word to the wise:you'd better choose other Bernard movies:"Les Croix de Bois" ,of course ,but also "Les Miserables" the best French version of the famous novel,and the overlooked "Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir".