The read
It runs a compact 1h 21m.
Synopsis
Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).
Ratings
IMDb7/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Veit HarlanDirector
- Veit HarlanScreenplay
- Thea von HarbouScreenplay
- Felix LützkendorfScreenplay
Cast
- Kristina SöderbaumSéraphine Lawrence
- Philip DornBezirksarzt Dr. Morot
- Heinrich SchrothGraf Duval
- Paul DahlkeJournalist Henri Poquet
- Elisabeth BotzPensionswirtin Madame Chaumette
- Paul BildtAttaché an der englischen Botschaft
- Edith MeinhardJeanette
- Leo PeukertDubois
- Charlotte SchultzMadeleine Lawrence, Seraphines Mutter
- Friedrich KaysslerPolizeipräfekt von Paris
- Hans HaldenPolizeikommissar Fragonard
- Leo PeukertPolizeisekretär Dubois