A poor relative, cousin Bette is cast aside by a wealthy family. Embittered and jealous, she devotes herself to the systematic destruction of those around her. Max de Rieux's adaptation takes the decision to return to the initial meeting of the Hulot couple as if to show the degradation of the pure feelings and sublime aspirations of youth in bloody competition and irresistible perversion in materialist society.
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Germaine Rouer
Also in
Au Bonheur des Dames
Le Dolmen tragique
Henri Baudin
Also in
Napoleon
A House Without Love
Alice Tissot
Also in
The Colonel's Account
Francis the First
Charles Lamy
Known for
The Fall of the House of Usher
François Rozet
Also in
Les Misérables
The Three Masks
Suzy Pierson
Also in
The Three-Sided Mirror
Six and a Half by Eleven
Max de Rieux Director · Honoré de Balzac Author
First release November 30, 1928 · Produced in France · Original title La Cousine Bette
Production
Astor Films
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France
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Original title
La Cousine Bette
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · November 30, 1928
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