Women in Prison
Original Title
Prisonnières- Director: Charlotte Silvera
- Writer: Charlotte Silvera
- Producer: Roger Andrieux
CGiii Comment
A women's prison. Women arrive, some for as long as eight years. They work making teddy bears. Dessombes, the head matron, misses little. She gets intelligence from Marthe, an older convict. When the uncompromising and difficult Nelly is sent to the hole for something she didn't do, the women suspect that Marthe had a hand in it. Brigitte breaks off their friendship, so Marthe adopts Nicole, guilty of infanticide and shunned by the other prisoners, as her surrogate daughter. Sabine, young, energetic, and one of the few with a husband who visits her, falls in love with Lucie, a woman who has given up on life and fears the day of her release. Tensions mount.
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Cast & Characters
Marie-Christine Barrault as Dessombes;
Annie Girardot as Marthe;
Bernadette Lafont as Nelly Roux;
Milva as Lucie Germon;
Agnes Soral as Nicole Beck;
Corinne Touzet as Sabine;
Franci Camus as Annie;
Manuela Gourary as Danseuse;
Fanny Bastien as Brigitte;
Eliane Boeri as Recidiviste;
Elisabeth Lafont as Irene;
Claudine Mavros as Colette;
Edith Winkler as Suzanne;
Sophie Minet as Marion;
Jean-Pierre Clami as Le Policier