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In French with English subtitles.
Dédée (
Simone Signore) is an attractive young prostitute who works in a popular café-bar in the Belgian port of Antwerp. Her pimp boyfriend, Marco, is the bar's bouncer, a man despised by all, even Dedée. One day, the prostitute falls under the spell of Francesco, the captain of an Italian cargo vessel. Realizing they are perfectly suited for one another, the couple decide to run away and start a new life together. Unfortunately, Marco has no intention of letting Dedée escape from him...
Dédée d'Anvers is the film that launched the career of Simone Signoret, establishing her in the kind of role for which she is probably best known, that of the morally ambiguous, devastatingly sensual femme fatale. Prior to this Signoret had distinguished herself with a notable supporting part in Marcel Blistène's
Macadam (1946) but it was only through her early collaborations with her then husband
Yves Allégret -
Dédée d'Anvers and
Manèges (1950) - that her career took off. In the early years of her film career Signoret was one of the most alluring of French actresses - no one was better equipped to play the part of the prostitute, unfaithful wife or scheming hussy and she was soon sought after by some of the finest film directors of her day.
