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The Kidnapping

6.8 83 mins Drama   1934
Mentor-Film  
Director(s): Dimitri Kirsanoff

Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.

Casts of The Kidnapping

Dita Parlo

as Elsi

Geymond Vital

as Firmin

Jeanne Marie-Laurent

as La mère de Firmin

Auguste Bovério

as Mathias - le colporteur

Dyk Rudens

as Hans

Hans Kaspar Ilg

as Gottfried

Nadia Sibirskaïa

as Jeanne

Lucas Gridoux

as Mânu - l'idiot

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

as Un villageois valaisan

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