The Ball

Le Bal

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.

Director

Wilhelm Thiele

Screenplay

Ladislas Fodor

Screenplay

Curt Siodmak

Novela

Irène Némirovsky

Status

Released

Release date

11/09/1931

Original language

French