Prey for the Shadows

1961 French film

14 April 1961 (1961-04-14)

Running time

95 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

Prey for the Shadows (French: La Proie pour l'ombre) is a 1961 French drama film directed by Alexandre Astruc, starring Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin and Christian Marquand. It is also known as Shadow of Adultery. The original screenplay was written by Astruc, Claude Brulé and Françoise Sagan.^[1] The film was released on 14 April 1961. It had 620,504 admissions in France.^[2]

Plot

The movie centers on the story of a woman who runs an art gallery and leaves her husband for another man, whom she eventually also leaves but becomes dependent on.

Cast

Annie Girardot as Anna Kraemmer
Christian Marquand as Bruno
Daniel Gélin as Eric Kraemmer
Michèle Girardon as Anita
Michèle Gerbier as Claudine
Anne Caprile [fr] as Luce
Christiane Barry as Madame Interlenghi
Corrado Guarducci as Edoardo Interlengh

Themes

Alexandre Astruc described the main character as "a woman who feels in herself a very real need for freedom that is as much moral as social so that she sets about matching a man's work; but at the same time, because she is a woman, she feels the need to be passive, dominated, submissive."^[1]

Production

The film was produced by Les Films Marceau in collaboration with Cocinor - Comptoir Cinématographique du Nord. It was shot from 20 July to 31 August 1960.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Sadoul, Georges; Morris, Peter, eds. (1972). Dictionary of Films. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 295. ISBN 0-520-01864-8.
^ "La Proie pour l'ombre". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-06-22.
^ "La Proie pour l'ombre". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Retrieved 2015-06-22.