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The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
FRANCE · 1927

The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans

Julien Duvivier
arranged marriage family rivalry wealth and dowry forbidden love class dynamics
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Synopsis

Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young

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