FRANCE · 1904

Détresse et charité

Georges Méliès
European Art Cinema poverty family hardship homelessness charity illness
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A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father sends daughter out to beg. Rejected by other beggars, the girl collapses in the snow…

Year1904
CountryFrance
DirectorGeorges Méliès
Détresse et charité poster

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