Femmes de Paris (1953)

Plot Summary

Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at the Ruban Bleu cabaret, if her lover hasn't joined her by midnight. Intrigued, the professor decides to go and prevent the unfortunate woman from committing suicide. One of his students, who earns her living as an understudy in a knife act, helps him in his investigation, while the school principal and a policeman suspect him of being a prankster or even of selling drugs. For the scientist, it's an opportunity to discover a world of music-hall that he'd never known before: "I thought I knew the sky chart by heart, but there's one planet that was totally unknown to me: Earth. I'll be back!

Full Cast & Characters

Michel Simon

Professor Charles Buisson

Brigitte Auber

Gisèle, student of Buisson

Henri Génès

Lucien Mosca, boss of Ruban Bleu

Germaine Kerjean

Mrs. Rédéri

Anne Campion

The determined trafficker

Philippe Mareuil

Pierre-Dominique, aka 'Pépé'

Robert Lombard

Maurice, Buisson's assistant

Georges Galley

Patrice

Suzanne Norbert

Mrs. Buisson

Gaby Basset

Henriette, washroom attendant

Micheline Dax

The indecisive snob

Leila Lampi

Russian Princess

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