The Flood

In a village on the banks of the Rhone river Alban a young farmer is about to marry Margot Monsieur Broc a town hall employee discovers his daughter is taken with Alban When he rejects her she collapses Suddenly the river rises and floods the village One evening Margot disapears This peasant drama adapted from a novel by André Corthis and shot during an actual flood of the Rhone was Dellucs last The human madness is an echo to natures fury magnified by moving images of a Provence submerged by water and mist