Film

The Kidnapping

7.119341h 23mDrama

Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Year: 1934

Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.

Top cast

Dita Parlo

Elsi

Geymond Vital

Firmin

Jeanne Marie-Laurent

La mère de Firmin

Auguste Bovério

Mathias - le colporteur

Dyk Rudens

Hans

Hans Kaspar Ilg

Gottfried

Nadia Sibirskaïa

Jeanne

Lucas Gridoux

Mânu - l'idiot

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

Un villageois valaisan

Joe Alex

Robert Bagger

Directed by

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Written by

Stefan Markus, Benjamin Fondane

Produced by

Stefan Markus, Dimitri Kirsanoff