剧情介绍：
Éric Heller, an unemployed engineer, finds work as a swimming instructor at a popular Austrian resort beside the alluring Lac-aux-dames lake. Éric's good looks and manly physique make him especially popular with the lady tourists, particularly Dany, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist named Lyssenhop. One evening, whilst attempting to swim across the lake, Éric comes close to drowning but is saved by a mysterious young woman in a rowing boat. The woman, who is almost a girl, introduces herself as Puck and takes Éric back to her home, situated on a small island at the centre of the lake, so that he can recover from his ordeal. Puck has spent all her life alone with her father, a well-known recluse, and so takes an immediate liking to the handsome young engineer. With Puck's help, Éric returns to the mainland and is soon pursuing a love affair with Dany. He regards Puck as no more than a friend, although she is infatuated with him. When Éric asks Lyssenhop for his consent to marry his daughter he is sent away with a harsh rebuff. Having lost Dany, Éric's fortunes take a turn for the worse. Penniless and stricken with a fever, he rejects Puck when she comes to visit him. When Puck's boat is found abandoned on the lake, Éric draws the obvious conclusion that he drove her to her death...
After a promising start to his filmmaking career with such films as Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931) and Fanny (1932), Marc Allégret was considered a safe pair of hands when he was commissioned to direct this big budget production which featured not only a prestigious cast but also a substantial location shoot at an exotic location: Lake Constance in Austria. Lac aux dames was to be one of Allégret's biggest films of the 1930s, a popular crowdpleaser that not only bolstered his own reputation but also brought his talented young protégée (and off-screen lover) Simone Simon to the attention of American movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. It was the latter who, newly installed as vice-president of Twentieth Century Fox studios, gave Simon her ticket to Hollywood within a year of the film's release.
Lac aux dames is a superior example of the kind of film melodrama that could be relied upon to fill the cinema halls in the 1930s. It was based on the 1927 novel Hell in Frauensee by the celebrated Austrian author Vicki Baum, whose subsequent bestseller Menschen im Hotel had previously been adapted by MGM as Grand Hotel (1932). The dialogue for the film was written by none other than Colette, one of the most important French novelists and playwrights of the period, now best known for her 1944 novel Gigi. Allégret's penchant for working with highly photogenic up-and-coming actors (of both sexes) is borne out by the casting of such talented young performers as Jean-Pierre Aumont, Odette Joyeux and Rosine Deréan, in addition to the aforementioned Simone Simon. The most well-known actor in the cast-list, Michel Simon, is relegated to a comparatively minor supporting role, albeit one tha
After a promising start to his filmmaking career with such films as Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931) and Fanny (1932), Marc Allégret was considered a safe pair of hands when he was commissioned to direct this big budget production which featured not only a prestigious cast but also a substantial location shoot at an exotic location: Lake Constance in Austria. Lac aux dames was to be one of Allégret's biggest films of the 1930s, a popular crowdpleaser that not only bolstered his own reputation but also brought his talented young protégée (and off-screen lover) Simone Simon to the attention of American movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. It was the latter who, newly installed as vice-president of Twentieth Century Fox studios, gave Simon her ticket to Hollywood within a year of the film's release.
Lac aux dames is a superior example of the kind of film melodrama that could be relied upon to fill the cinema halls in the 1930s. It was based on the 1927 novel Hell in Frauensee by the celebrated Austrian author Vicki Baum, whose subsequent bestseller Menschen im Hotel had previously been adapted by MGM as Grand Hotel (1932). The dialogue for the film was written by none other than Colette, one of the most important French novelists and playwrights of the period, now best known for her 1944 novel Gigi. Allégret's penchant for working with highly photogenic up-and-coming actors (of both sexes) is borne out by the casting of such talented young performers as Jean-Pierre Aumont, Odette Joyeux and Rosine Deréan, in addition to the aforementioned Simone Simon. The most well-known actor in the cast-list, Michel Simon, is relegated to a comparatively minor supporting role, albeit one tha