Paradise Lost (French: Paradis perdu) is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle.

[1] In pre-First World War Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker.

After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the war.

Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter.

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