Discover great cinema and the connections that made it possible.
FRANCE · 1929
Le Petit chaperon rouge
Synopsis
Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling; 22 June 1900 – 28 September 1979) was a French actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.
Cinematic DNA
We haven't mapped this film's connections yet. Explore Jean Renoir's other work or films from France below.
More from Jean Renoir → Cinema of France →More from Jean Renoir
France · European Art Cinema
John Gibbs, Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation , London and New York, Wallflower Press
John Gibbs, Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation , London and New York, Wallflower Press
Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, French Cinema: from its Beginnings to the Present , New York & London, Continuum
Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, French Cinema: from its Beginnings to the Present , New York & London, Continuum
James Leahy, “All in the Script? So Why Make the Movie?”, Vertigo , Vol.2, No.2
James Leahy, “All in the Script? So Why Make the Movie?”, Vertigo , Vol.2, No.2
Films with Similar Themes
fairy tale adaptation · silent cinema · French cinema · childhood innocence · danger and survival
