La Vénus électrique

A painter in 1928 Paris, unable to work since his wife’s death, unknowingly participates in fake spiritualist shows staged by a carnival worker. As he regains his inspiration, she falls in love with the man she is deceiving.

Cast

Pio Marmaï

as Antoine Balestro

Anaïs Demoustier

as Suzanne

Gilles Lellouche

as Armand

Vimala Pons

as Irène

Gustave Kervern

as Titus

Madeleine Baudot

as Camille

Charline Cerri

as Fairground Waitress

Edwin Gillet

as Man Being Kissed

Patrice Tépasso

as Young Man in Love

Fanny Carbonnel

as Witness to the Electric Kiss

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