92 minutes
12/23/1942
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Odette Joyeux
as Zélie Fontaine
François Périer
as François de Portal
Simone Renant
as Prefect Hortense de la Jacquerie
Jacqueline Champi
as Marinette
Jean Parédès
as Désiré Ledru
Ariane Murator
as Charlotte
André Alerme
as Marquis of Longevialle
Julien Carette
as Loriquet
Jean Debucourt
as Emperor Napoléon III
Robert Arnoux
as Monsieur de la Jacquerie
Louis Salou
as Monsieur de Mortemort
Yves Deniaud
as Mayor
Georges Pally
as Daronne
Jean-Pierre Kérien
as Postillion
Martial Rèbe
as President
Henri de Livry
as Minister of Justice (uncredited)
Robert Vattier
as Maître Boubousson
Gilles Quéant
as Dance madman
Huguette Donga
Henry Farty
as (uncredited)
Géo Forster
as (uncredited)
Léo Malet
as Extra (uncredited)
Germaine Stainval
as (uncredited)
Eugène Yvernès
as (uncredited)