He is immediately struck by Thérèse, who succumbs to him but will not abandon her husband and aunt. Into their stifling existence comes Laurent, a lively Italian truck driver. Thérèse, an orphan, has been brought up by her widowed aunt in a dingy backstreet shop in Lyon and married to her sickly first cousin Camille. It was screened at the 14th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Bertrand. It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris and on location in Lyon. The story is loosely based on the 1867 novel of the same title by Émile Zola but with the setting updated to 1953. Thérèse Raquin (also The Adultress) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone and Jacques Duby.
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