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Eugénie Grandet (1910)

Eugénie Grandet poster
Directed by
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, Émile Chautard
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
10 min
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in 19th century provincial France deals with her wealthy but miserly father. Her life changes when her cousin arrives and they fall in love.

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What happens

Eugénie Grandet est un film français réalisé par Émile Chautard et Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, sorti en 1910. Il s'agit d'une adaptation du roman d'Honoré de Balzac Eugénie Grandet, dont le début a été publié le 19 septembre 1833 dans L'Europe littéraire, sous le titre Eugénie Grandet, histoire de province, et édité ensuite en volume en 1834 chez Madame Béchet. Eugénie Grandet prend place, dans La Comédie humaine, dans le premier volume des Scènes de la vie de province. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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