Beau Masque (Handsome Face) is a Franco-Italian film directed by Bernard Paul and released in 1972.
[1] In a region in the east of France, Pierrette, (Dominique Labourier), a young mill worker devotes herself totally to her trade union activity even to the detriment of her private life.
She crosses first the path of an émigré Italian, nicknamed Beau Masque, (Luigi Diberti), a truck driver.
Then, at the time of a dance organised by the French Communist Party, she makes the acquaintance of Philippe Letourneau (Jean-Claude Dauphin), the factory director.
According to Françoise Arnoul, (writing in her memoirs Animal doué de bonheur ISBN 2-7144-3244-1), Jane Fonda was the initial choice to play the role of Pierrette but Paramount-France grew less keen on the film the more they looked at it - they thought it too warm to communist ideology.