Violette (1978) on Netflix
Paris, 1933. Violette Nozière leads a double life, working as a prostitute and stealing from her petit-bourgeois parents to support her lover, the student Jean Dabin.
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Plot summary
Violette Nozière lives in early-1930s France with Germaine Nozière, her mother, and Baptiste Nozière, a train driver. Only the two women know that Baptiste is not Violette's father. Her parents take her for an innocent eighteen-year-old, and she chafes at the respectable, petit-bourgeois life they keep; in the less salubrious quarters of the city she works as a prostitute. The money she earns, and the sums she steals from the household, pay for her lover Jean Dabin, a student. A doctor tells the family that Violette has contracted syphilis, and she tells her parents that she inherited the disease from them.
Cast
- Jean Dalmainas Émile
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- Philippe Procotas Me Vésine-Larue
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Violette (1978)
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- Violette Nozière is drawn from a real French case: Violette Nozière, a teenage prostitute and murderer, poisoned her parents in 1933 France.
