Stain in the Snow

1954 film

Stain in the Snow

Directed by| Luis Saslavsky
Written by| Luis Saslavsky
André Tabet
Based on| La neige était sale by Georges Simenon
Produced by| Fritz Bukofzer
Starring| Daniel Gélin
Valentine Tessier
Marie Mansart
Cinematography| André Bac
Edited by| Isabelle Elman
Music by| René Cloërec

Production
company

Les Films Tellus

Distributed by| Les Films Marceau

Release date

* 19 February 1954 (1954-02-19)

Running time

| 110 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

Stain in the Snow (French: La neige était sale) is a 1954 French crime film directed by Luis Saslavsky and starring Daniel Gélin, Valentine Tessier and Marie Mansart.[1] It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert. It is based on a 1948 novel of the same title by Georges Simenon.[2] It attracted audiences of over two million at the French box office.[3] The setting was shifted from Nazi-occupied France to a fictional country under German occupation during the Second World War.[4]

## Synopsis

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Frank is brought up in a brothel by his prostitute mother. As he grows up he becomes increasingly criminal and violent.

## Cast

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* Daniel Gélin as Frank Friedmayer
* Valentine Tessier as Mme Irma
* Marie Mansart as Suzy Holtz
* Daniel Ivernel as Krommer
* Véra Norman as Moune
* Nadine Basile as Bertha
* Paul Faivre as Le concierge
* Joëlle Bernard as Une fille
* Camille Guérini as Le commissaire
* Claude Vernier as L'officier
* Jo Dest as Un Allemand
* Robert Moor as Le professeur
* Jean-Pierre Mocky as Le violoniste
* Antoine Balpêtré as Holtz
* Georges Tabet as Un Allemand

## References

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1. ^ Walker-Morrison p.241
2. ^ Goble p.605
3. ^ Walker-Morrison p.224
4. ^ Walker-Morrison p.241

## Bibliography

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* Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

## External links

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* Stain in the Snow at IMDb

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Films directed by Luis Saslavsky

* Crimen a las tres (1935)
* La fuga (1938)
* Closed Door (1939)
* Ashes to the Wind (1942)
* Los ojos más lindos del mundo (1943)
* Eclipse of the Sun (1943)
* The Phantom Lady (1945)
* Road of Hell (1946)
* Story of a Bad Woman (1948)
* La otra y yo (1949)
* The Black Crown (1951)
* Stain in the Snow (1954)
* The She-Wolves (1957)
* First of May (1958)
* This Desired Body (1959)
* The Balcony of the Moon (1962)
* El Fausto criollo (1979)

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