Four Flights to Love (1939)

Original title

Paradis perdu

Directed by

Abel Gance

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Before World War I, a young artist living in Paris falls for a dressmaker. She dies after giving birth to their daughter. He then joins a dangerous wartime mission, is badly hurt but survives, and comes home to raise his child.

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What happens

Paradise Lost (French: Paradis perdu) is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle. In pre-First World War Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the war. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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