Prey for the Shadows

Prey for the Shadows
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlexandre Astruc
Written byAlexandre Astruc
Claude Brulé
Françoise Sagan
Produced byEdmond Ténoudji
CinematographyMarcel Grignon
Edited byGhislaine Desjonquères
Denise de Casabianca
Music byRichard Cornu
Jean-Sébastien Bach
Production
companies
Les Films Marceau
Cocinor
Distributed byMarceau-Cocinor
Release date
  • 14 April 1961 (1961-04-14)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Prey for the Shadows (French: La Proie pour l'ombre) is a 1961 French drama film directed by Alexandre Astruc, starring Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin and Christian Marquand. It is also known as Shadow of Adultery. The original screenplay was written by Astruc, Claude Brulé and Françoise Sagan.[1] The film was released on 14 April 1961. It had 620,504 admissions in France.[2]

Plot

The movie centers on the story of a woman who runs an art gallery and leaves her husband for another man, whom she eventually also leaves but becomes dependent on.

Cast

Themes

Alexandre Astruc described the main character as "a woman who feels in herself a very real need for freedom that is as much moral as social so that she sets about matching a man's work; but at the same time, because she is a woman, she feels the need to be passive, dominated, submissive."[1]

Production

The film was produced by Les Films Marceau in collaboration with Cocinor - Comptoir Cinématographique du Nord. It was shot from 20 July to 31 August 1960.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Sadoul, Georges; Morris, Peter, eds. (1972). Dictionary of Films. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 295. ISBN 0-520-01864-8.
  2. ^ "La Proie pour l'ombre". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-06-22.
  3. ^ "La Proie pour l'ombre". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Retrieved 2015-06-22.


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