Grisou

Grisou

87 mins | Drama | May 11, 1938

Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.

Grisou

87 mins | Drama | May 11, 1938

Grisou
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
Producers Alexandre Kamenka
Original title Grisou
Directors Maurice de Canonge
Writers Germain Fried, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Dalio

Cast

Madeleine Robinson

as La loute

Pierre Brasseur

as Hagnauer

Raymond Aimos

as Demuysère

Odette Joyeux

as Madeleine

Bernard Blier

as le fils Mélée