Women's Prison (1958)

Original title

Prisons de femmes

Directed by

Maurice Cloche

Genre

drama film, prison film, women in prison film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is sent to a harsh prison where she struggles with the rules and the other inmates. The movie follows her attempts to survive and find some hope in that difficult place.

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What happens

Women's Prison (French: Prisons de femmes) is a 1958 French crime film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Danièle Delorme, Jacques Duby and Vega Vinci. It is based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Francis Carco previously made into the 1938 French film Women's Prison and the 1947 Swedish film Two Women. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani and Jean Mandaroux. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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