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Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.Read moreLess
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
The story
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
Cast & crew
Solveig DommartinJeanne
Emmanuelle ChauletOdette, ouvrière
Pierre BanderetPitiou, contremaître
Maurice ChevitL'abbé Roussel
Philippe ClévenotLucien
Albert DelpyRoger, permanent syndical
Catherine HosmalinAgnès, ouvrièreExplore the crew
- Writer
- Jean-Pierre Thorn
- Writer
- Lorette Cordrie
- Editor
- Jean-Pierre Thorn
- Original Music Composer
- Jacky Moreau
- Writer
- Dominique Lancelot
- Editor
- Alain Debarnot
- Director of Photography
- Denis Gheerbrant
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Thorn