Le diable souffle (1947) Fr

Director: Edmond T. Gréville Writers: Edmond T. Gréville (scenario), Max Joly (adaptation) Stars: Charles Vanel, Jean Chevrier, Héléna Bossis In the Basque country, near the French, Spanish border, the wind, Tramontana, almost never stops blowing and howling; Laurent, a misanthropist who has seen it all before, lives on a small island in the middle of a river with his mistress, Louvaine, a failed piano player, and his servant, Pepita, secretly in love with him, who hates that painted afterward, laurent fires her and her halfwit son. Louvaine becomes seriously ill. A former prisoner, a Republican escaped from general Franco s jails, who has taken refuge in Laurent s barn, tells him that his woman must be operated for appendicitis : as no boat can reach the island, he urges him to let him perform the operation with makeshift means