Quai des illusions(1959)

movie - first aired/released 1959-01-21 - 85 min - audience 7.0

Drama

Directed by Émile Couzinet

Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.