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L’Ordonnance
(The Ordonnance)
Also known as El Asistente in Spain
(1921) France
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels / 1550 metres
Directed by Viatcheslav Tourjanskii
Cast: Nathalie Kovanko [Jeanne], Alexandre Colas [Colonel de Limousin], Paul Hubert [the colonel’s orderly], Henri Svoboda [Capitain de Saint-Albert]
Ermolieff-Cinéma production. / From the novelette L’Ordonnance by Guy de Maupassant. Cinematography by Joseph-Louis Mundwiller and Nikolai Toporkov. Presented by Pathé Consortium Cinéma. / Released 18 February 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA on 2 October 1921. The film was released 8 December 1921 in Spain. The film was released in Finland on 6 November 1922.
Drama.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 1 October 1921, page ?] Col. De Limousin is notified by a maid that his wife has been in her bath more than an hour. With the assistance of the orderly he breaks open the door and finds her dead. A letter from her soon reaches him and as he reads there is presented a story showing the events which lead up to her love affair with another officer, starting at the time when she was left an orphan and adopted by the Colonel. As the plot develops, it is also revealed that the orderly, used as a messenger, also declares his love, and the Colonel’s wife, in constant fear that he will reveal her secret when she repulses him, finally commits suicide. The Colonel calls the orderly before him and shoots him when he declines to reveal the name of his wife’s lover.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 13 January 2025.
References: Bardèche-History p. 171 : Website-IMDb.
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