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The Little Match Girl (1928)
About this film
The Little Match Girl is a 1928 French drama featurette film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Catherine Hessling. It follows a poor girl struggling to sell matches on New Year's Eve but is ignored by passersby. As she tries to keep warm by lighting her matches, she experiences vivid hallucinations of warmth and comfort, ultimately leading to her tragic death in the cold, where she is found smiling in the snow.
Directors & creators
Jean Renoir
Subjects
silent, drama, film, fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, themes of poverty and hope