Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monastery church....

Deux Petits Jésus (1910)












Facts
Director | Georges Denola |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Titles |
(Alternative)
Les deux Jésus
(Translated)
Two Little Jesus’
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Production |
(Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (S.C.A.G.L.))
Pathé Frères
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Distribution |
Categories
Beggar Black and White Christmas Convent Death Despair Drama Miracles Nativity Scene Nun Poverty Prayer Short Silent Film Single Mother Suicide Attempt DramaShortBeggar, Black and White, Christmas, Convent, Death, Despair, Miracles, Nativity Scene, Nun, Poverty, Prayer, Silent Film, Single Mother, Suicide AttemptDescriptions
A woman leaves the maternity ward with her newborn, but arriving home, she finds that her husband has abandoned them. Distraught, she goes out on the streets to beg and even considers suicide. Desperate, she abandons her baby at a nunnery.
Source: Imdb
Jeanne comes out of Maternity. She returns home, her child in her arms, and finds her home abandoned. The husband left, cowardly, leaving her alone and destitute, delivered to the deep misery of Paris. She is hungry and cannot breastfeed her child. Without bread, without shelter, without hope, the sad mother, attracted by the dark banks of the Seine, contemplates the river with a gloomy and tempted eye. Is it not better to imitate these unfortunates who go away in death, taking their child with them, since life no longer wants to welcome them? However, the Christmas bells ring merrily, ringing the joyful advent of the Child-God and hope is born in Jeanne's heart. In the sanctuary of a chapel, lights shine around Jesus lying in his manger and towards whom radiates the pure love of the prostrate nuns. Jeanne slips into the shadow of a confessional and the lights are off, the nuns having returned to their cells, she places in the manger, in place of the wax Jesus, the other Jesus, the child born of her flesh, and places him under the protection of the Lord. But her last strength is exhausted and the unfortunate, exhausted, goes to die on the bench in the avenue, while her last wish comes true and the innocent, welcomed by the good nuns as a present from heaven in this Merry Christmas Day, stretches her little arms towards life.
Source: Pathe Freres - Translated
Jeanne and her new born child are abandoned by her husband. In desperation Jeanne goes to a convent and leaves her baby there in the Christmas manger. Tortured by what she’s done, she collapses in the street. She is found by some passers-by and dies in their arms. When the nuns decorate the Christmas scenery, they discover the baby. Excited about their “Christmas child”, they start to pray.
Source: Ngā Taonga
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Cast
Jeanne Grumbach | - | |
Georges Paulais | - | |
Jeanne Delvair | - | |
Marcelle Monthil | - | |
Anatole Bahier | - | |
Gina Barbieri | - | |
Marcelle Barry | - | |
Mademoiselle Lebrun | - | |
Gaston Dupray | - |
Crew
Henrietta Consuelo Sansom | - | Writer |
Georges Denola | - | Director |
Reviews
A woman has given birth, but her husband leaves her alone. In despair, she tries to find a solution. Contemplating suicide, but deciding instead to go to the monastery. There she switches out the Jesus child in the crib with her child and leaves in exhaustion. It is beautifully filmed, and even if the plot sounds a bit comic, it is a very tragic drama. It is actually one of these films from this time that is definitely worth a watch having a timeless quality to it, even if the plot is a bit thin.