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Avortement clandestin!

  • 1973
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
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Avortement clandestin! (1973)
Drama

Sophie, a young employee, gets raped on her way back from work and realizes some time later that she is pregnant. She does not want to keep the baby but abortion is illegal. Who can she tell... Read allSophie, a young employee, gets raped on her way back from work and realizes some time later that she is pregnant. She does not want to keep the baby but abortion is illegal. Who can she tell? She first keeps her secret to herself but Jacques, her boyfriend, notices something is t... Read allSophie, a young employee, gets raped on her way back from work and realizes some time later that she is pregnant. She does not want to keep the baby but abortion is illegal. Who can she tell? She first keeps her secret to herself but Jacques, her boyfriend, notices something is the matter with her and manages to make her talk. When he learns about her lot, he advises ... Read all

  • Director
    • Pierre Chevalier
  • Writers
    • Pierre Chevalier
    • Marius Lesoeur
    • Bob Sirens
  • Stars
    • Mireille Dargent
    • Monique Gérard
    • Daniel Bellus
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.1/10
    12
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pierre Chevalier
    • Writers
      • Pierre Chevalier
      • Marius Lesoeur
      • Bob Sirens
    • Stars
      • Mireille Dargent
      • Monique Gérard
      • Daniel Bellus
    • 1User review
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mireille Dargent
    Mireille Dargent
    • Sophie Beltois
    • (as Dylie Dargent)
    Monique Gérard
    • La mère de Sophie
    Daniel Bellus
    • Jacques
    Olivier Mathot
    Olivier Mathot
    • Le directeur de l'agence
    Alice Arno
    Alice Arno
    • Marie-France
    Marcel Charvey
    • Le premier docteur
    René Bériard
    Alix Mahieux
    • Mme Brunet - la bouchère
    France Nicolas
    • L'infirmière
    Pierre Taylou
    • le docteur Smith - un médecin anglais
    Antoine Fontaine
    • Le docteur Anderson - un médecin anglais
    Simone Berthier
    • La mère de Jacques
    Lily Baron
    • L'accoucheuse
    Jean Roville
    • Le juge
    John Oury
    • Un violeur
    Claude Sendron
    • Delcroix
    Gaston Meunier
    • Un expert au tribunal
    Étienne Jaumillot
    • Un expert au tribunal
    • Director
      • Pierre Chevalier
    • Writers
      • Pierre Chevalier
      • Marius Lesoeur
      • Bob Sirens
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    Et Pourtant ... (La Loi De 1920)

    As Pierre Chevalier was famous first for his coarse comedies,then ,in the seventies,for his pornographic movies ,it was easy to relegate "Avortement Clandestin!"(illegal abortion ) to the sex movies ghetto;and however,people who are looking for a dirty flick will not get something out of it.A three-minute orgy depiction when the heroine is raped and that's it.

    Sophie is a working-class girl ;she is still living with her mom who has still two children to raise (the father left home four years before);she's got a boyfriend and she lives in the nine-to-five routine.

    After her rape,she becomes pregnant;it's 1973 and it would be two more years before the Loi Veil.Rich people can get away with it,going to England or to the Netherlands ,or paying high prices to doctors who abuses their position (the honest doctor tells her so).There is no other course left to a poor girl but to see a street abortionist (a Violette Nozières of the seventies)in 1973.The screenplay does not pass over in silence the power of money and a scene showing rich bourgeois would not have been out of place in a Chabrol's work.As ,the Gendarme says,Sophie and his mom (given away to the authorities by holier-than-thou gossips )are decent people ;and if Sophie's discharged ,her voice over reminds us of other girls' fate,less happy than hers.

    Scenes show women marching on the streets ,and the legalization of abortion,thanks to a great political woman,Simone Veil,was a big victory for women's lib.

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      Final film of Simone Berthier.
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    • Release date
      • April 19, 1973 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Belgium
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Madlen seks oyuncağı
    • Production companies
      • Brux International Pictures
      • Eurociné
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      1 hour 12 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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