The Flood

Release Date: 1924-01-02

Overview: In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daughter is taken with Alban. When he rejects her, she collapses. Suddenly, the river rises and floods the village. One evening, Margot disapears… This peasant drama, adapted from a novel by André Corthis and shot during an actual flood of the Rhone, was Delluc’s last. The human madness is an echo to nature’s fury, magnified by moving images of a Provence submerged by water and mist.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Ève Francis

as Germaine Broc

Edmond van Daële

as Broc

Philippe Hériat

as Alban Perrin

Ginette Maddie

as Margot Doucet

Claire Prélia

as Margot's mother