The Tenth Symphony

The Tenth Symphony French La Dixime Symphonie is a 1918 silent French drama film directed by Abel Gance.

A couple of years later, she meets the famous composer Enric Damor and they get married. Enrics daughter, Claire, meets by chance Fred and falls in love with him. With Enrics approval, Fred proposes marriage and comes frequently to visit his fiance. Eve is determined not to let Fred marry Claire and, as he refuses to listen to her, she tells her husband that the wedding must not take place. Enric does not understand his wifes behaviour and when Fred let him find a letter sent by Claire to him, he asks her whether she is in love with Fred. Rather than confessing her past, Eve tells him that she does love him.Enric is flabbergasted when he hears about his wifes betrayal, but he sublimates his sufferings to create a masterpiece, his Tenth Symphony, on the theme of Womens betrayal. Fred offers Eve not to marry Claire if she comes back to him. She accepts and he writes a curt breakup letter to his fiance. Enric is devastated with his wifes absence and Claire goes to Freds house, determined to take revenge and have Eve come back. She threatens him with a gun but Eve tries to dissuade her from killing him. While they are arguing, Fred draws his own gun and after pointing it at them, turns it against himself and shoots himself. Eve tells Claire how she had shot Freds sister in the same room. Eve can now go back to Enric, her true love. ........

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