The Little Match Girl (1928 film)

The Little Match Girl (French: La petite marchande d'allumettes) is a 1928 French drama featurette film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Catherine Hessling.

The Little Match Girl
Directed byJean Renoir
Written byHans Christian Andersen
Jean Renoir
StarringCatherine Hessling
Eric Barclay
CinematographyJean Bachelet
Release date
8 June 1928
Running time
34 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent film
French intertitles

Plot

The story of a frozen girl who tries to sell matches during Christmas and dreams about a toy store. The film is based on the 1845 short story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.[1]

Cast

  • Catherine Hessling as Karen
  • Amy Wells as Pop
  • Jean Storm as Lieutenant Axel Ott
  • Manuel Raaby as Politieagent
gollark: Depending on how you define it, it's not a hugely old thing.
gollark: Also, if prejudice is... somehow caused by capitalism... how do you explain racism and whatnot before modern capitalism was a thing?
gollark: Yes, and it happens that "make money" lines up conveniently with "let people sit", so you don't just have to hope that someone will come along and give you a nicer chair.
gollark: And secondly, if there's a group of people who will preferentially buy shorter chairs for themselves, then there's an incentive for someone to come along and make Shorter Chairs Co or something.
gollark: Different chairs for everybody? Because, well, firstly, that sounds impractical.

References

  1. "La Petite Marchande d'allumettes". arte.tv (in French). Arte. 2007-12-10. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2014-09-20.


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