Asmodée

Story

Synopsis

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house, with her four children. The eldest one, Emmy, is a beautiful and pure young girl of seventeen, who tentatively believes she has a calling to the religious life. The second child, Bertrand, aged fifteen, has been sent to England for an exchange holiday with a young English boy, Harry Fanning, and when the play opens, the French children are excitedly awaiting his arrival. Also living with the family is a French governess, and a tutor, Blaise Lebel. Lebel has a sombre power over the family, and it is the ‘intrusion’ of Harry that sets in motion in him a wave of resentment and fear.

Writers

François Mauriac, Basil Bartlett

Language

English

Release date

9 June 1959

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Marius Goring

  Blaise Lebel

• 

  Helen Cherry

  Marcelle de Barthas

• Pamela Buck

  Emmanuele

• Maureen Pryor

  Mademoiselle

• John Bown

  Harry Fanning

• 

  Ian Fleming

  The Curé

• Frederick Victor

  Jacques

• Ronnie Raymond

  Jean

• Waveney Lee

  Anne

• Max Latimer

  Chauffeur