The Starvelings (1906)
A happy family of working people is seen at breakfast before separating for the days toll. Next we see the father, a tinner by trade, at work on the roof of a high building, where the snow causes him to lose his footing and he falls into the street many stories below. Kind friends rush to his aid but he is past human help and is carried to his home, dead. The wife and daughter are entirely prostrated by the calamity, but the daughter goes bravely to work for the support of her dependent mother, The next scene shows our heroine at work in a dress-making establishment. Her employer comes in, and being attracted by her youth and beauty, offers to supply her with money. She refuses his propositions and advances and is discharged. Mother and daughter are at the point of starvation when the girl decides to beg in the streets. The police do not allow her to do that and she returns to find her mother dead of want. In despair, the unfortunate girl asphyxiates herself by means of burning charcoal, and when the neighbor* come In, they find her released by merciful death from her sufferings.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| André Heuzé | Writer |
