Four Flights to Love

Paradise Lost is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle. 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. 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 References Bibliography Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.