The Lady Banker (1980) on Netflix
Ambitious Emma Eckhert breaks into French high finance, a world reserved for men, and becomes popular with small savers. The banker Horace Vannister swears to destroy her.
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Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lady Banker (1980)
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- The film's screenplay was fictionalised and drew on the real Marthe Hanau, who in the 1920s and 1930s defrauded small investors of millions of francs by selling them stocks in shell or non-existent companies run by her friends and business partners.
- The leading role of the woman banker Emma Eckhert was originally intended for Jeanne Moreau, not for the actress who finally played her.
- The film is one of the very few in French cinema history to put a woman banker in the leading role.
