The Adolescent

In the summer of 1939, Jean takes his family for a stay with his widowed mother. He works as a butcher in Paris and with him is his Dutch wife Eva and their only child Marie, who is 12. Marie falls in love with the local doctor Alexandre, a Jewish bachelor aged 30. He enjoys her lively and intelligent company until late one night she comes to the house where he lives alone and offers herself, upon which he has to reject her. Shortly after this she undergoes her first period and is taught by her grandmother to be more careful with men. Her place in Alexandre's life is taken by her mother, who begins a full-blown affair while Jean is away helping to bring in the harvest. The grandmother teaches Marie that this is something which can happen, but one must not talk about it and must seek to reconcile the married couple. When Jean comes back, Alexandre keeps away until at the village festival he asks Eva for a dance, upon which Jean punches him and a brawl develops. Everything ends with the outbreak of war.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 39496
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide January 24, 1979
  • Runtime 90 minutes
  • Genres Drama
  • Original Country France
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages French
  • Production Company Carthago Coop. Cinematográfica Janus Films Südwestfunk (SWF)
  • Production Countries France
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  • Box Office Worldwide $3,200,000
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