Paradise Lost (1940 film)

Paradise Lost (French: Paradis perdu) is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle.^[1] In pre-First World War Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the war. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter.

Paradise Lost
Directed by	Abel Gance
Written by	Abel Gance Steve Passeur Herman G. Weinberg Joseph Than
Produced by	Frederic Brunn Jean Séfert Joseph Than
Starring	Fernand Gravey Elvire Popesco Micheline Presle
Cinematography	Christian Matras
Edited by	Léonide Azar
Music by	Hans May
Production company	Tarice Film
Distributed by	Consortium du Film
Release date	26 February 1940 (1940-02-26)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Cast

• Fernand Gravey as Le peintre Pierre Leblanc
• Elvire Popesco as Sonia Vorochine
• Micheline Presle as Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblanc
• André Alerme as le couturier Raoul Calou
• Monique Rolland as Laurence Aubujan
• Robert Le Vigan as Édouard Bordenave
• Robert Pizani as Le couturier Bernard Lesage
• Jane Marken as Madame Bonneron – la concierge
• Marcel Delaître as Le capitaine
• Les Bluebell Girls as Les girls à l'inauguration de la Marie-Galante
• Gérard Landry as Gérard Aubujan