Quay of Illusions | |
Director: | Émile Couzinet |
Producer: | Émile Couzinet |
Starring: | Gaby Morlay Louis Seigner Lise Bourdin |
Music: | Joseph Kosma |
Cinematography: | Pierre Dolley |
Editing: | Émile Couzinet |
Studio: | Burgus Films Rivo Film |
Distributor: | Comptoir Français du Film |
Released: | 21 January 1959 |
Runtime: | 85 minutes |
Country: | France Italy |
Language: | French |
Quay of Illusions (French: Quai des illusions) is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Émile Couzinet and starring Gaby Morlay, Louis Seigner and Lise Bourdin.[1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renneteau.
Lise is bored living at her parents house and leaves to work as a waitress by the waterfront. She meets Lise, a sailor, and falls pregnant with his child. He runs away to evade the police and she soon afterwards gives birth but loses the baby. Distraught she then steals a child from a maternity ward.