Irène Vernal

This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for "Best Foreign Film," and was finally released in its home country in 1971. It explores the issues of prejudice and superstition in the Belgian countryside through the troubles of a middle-aged farmer whose mother has been accused of being a witch. In French, this picture is based on a true story which took place in the late 1920s and early '30s.

La pièce se déroule à Bruxelles, où Suzanne Beulemans, fille d'un riche brasseur est promise en mariage à Séraphin Meulemeester, fils d'un brasseur concurrent. Le jeune homme et son père apparaissent l'un et l'autre particulièrement motivés par la dot de la jeune fiancée. Mais Séraphin a un concurrent en la personne d'Albert Delpierre, un jeune Parisien en stage à la brasserie Beulemans, discrètement épris de la jeune fille.