Devil in the Flesh (1947) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1947 · 110 mins · French

#7,706 183

Directed by

Claude Autant-Lara

Starring

Albert Rémy, Jacques Tati, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Germaine Ledoyen

Set in France during World I, Marthe anxiously awaits her husband Jacques, who fights on the front. She resumes a passionate affair with 17‑year‑old François, the boy she loved before marrying Jacques. François battles jealousy while Marthe tries to prove her devotion, and the tension spikes when she learns she is pregnant with Jacques’s child.