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  • The Woman and the Puppet (1929)
  • 110 min | Drama
The Woman and the Puppet (1929)
110 min | Drama
Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she ...See moreWomanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she encourages his advances, then she rejects him. Furthermore, there's a portrait of a young man in her room. When he offers her money her mother urges her to accept, she runs away. Some months later he discovers her dancing flamenco in a sleazy cabaret. She notices him, flirts with other customers, then with the young man from the portrait, before she starts talking again with Don Mateo. But the manager asks her to prepare for the next number. Don Mateo soon realises, that that next number is not on the stage, but in a different room. There she dances in the nude (shown!) for rich tourists. He interrupts her dance and asks her to quit. She half accepts and starts dancing in a different place. A rendez-vous with Mateo is again used to make him mad with love and jealousy. When he learns that the man in the picture is paid by Conchita to act as her lover, he gives up and decides to move to Paris with a friend. But then Conchita shows up to confess her love and they start a real romance... Written by Stephan Eichenberg See less
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Writers
Jacques de Baroncelli (scenario) | Pierre Frondaie (play) | Pierre Louÿs (novel "La femme et le pantin") (play)
Cinematographer
Louis Chaix
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Status
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Updated May 31, 1929
Release date
Nov 1996 (United States)

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6 cast members
Name Known for
Conchita Montenegro primary photo
Conchita Montenegro
Conchita Conchita   See fewer
Marido y mujer (1932)
Raymond Destac primary photo
Raymond Destac
Don Mateo Diaz Don Mateo Diaz   See fewer
Rear Window (1954)
Henri Lévêque primary photo
Henri Lévêque
André Stinvenol André Stinvenol   See fewer
Under the Leather Helmet (1932)
Jean Dalbe primary photo
Jean Dalbe
Morenito Morenito   See fewer
Saint Joan - The Maid (1929)
Andrée Canti primary photo
Andrée Canti
Conchita's mother Conchita's mother   See fewer
Les époux célibataires (1935)
Léo Joannon primary photo
Léo Joannon
Don Mateo's Friend (as Raoul Lagneau) Don Mateo's Friend (as Raoul Lagneau)   See fewer
The Rebel Priest (1954)
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