Whirlpool of Fate
- IMDb link: 0014898
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (779 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Director: Jean Renoir
- Cast: Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne, Maurice Touzé and others
- Release date: 20 Mar 1925
- Release year: 1925
- Runtime: 71 minutes
- Country: France
- Keywords: abusive uncle, rape and revenge, village, thief, france, impressionism, horse, slow motion scene, clog, cabbage
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After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants' riot. She is then helped by Raynal who falls in love with her but is too shy to tell her. Sheltered by his father, Virginia is robbed by her uncle of the money Raynal gave her to pay the bill in the village. He and his son then start to consider her a thief.
Gudule, tranquil in her life on a barge in late 19th-century France, has her existence shattered when her father drowns in a freak accident, leaving her with her abusive uncle who pilfers her inheritance and attempts to rape her. Escaping the barge, she befriends a young, petty criminal in a small nearby village, nicknamed "The Weasel," whose misdeeds incite the wrath of local peasants, who ultimately burn the coach in which Gudule lives. Again on the run, Gudule falls down a steep cliff and has eerie dreams about her past assailants. A wealthy young man Raynal finds and nurses her back to health but is unable to express his love for her until the brutish uncle returns, provoking him to act and defend her.
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