Fanny / Фанни (1932)

Marius has left, signed up for a five year hitch on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. In his few letters to his father Cesar, he hardly mentions Fanny. When she finds she is pregnant, she considers her options: suicide, to raise the child on her own, to wait for Marius, or to marry Honore Panisse, the older merchant who seeks her hand. These choices are emotional: to raise a bastard, to trust in Marius' eventual return, to believe he'll want to marry her, to save her mother from shame, to fool Panisse, to give her child a name. In scenes dramatizing Fanny's honesty, she talks to her mother, then Panisse, Cesar, and later Marius, and she makes her choices.

Вскоре после отъезда Мариуса, Фанни осознает, что ждет ребенка. Не желая порочить честь семьи, она выходит замуж за богатого вдовца Панисса, на 30 лет старше нее. Бездетный Панисс просит Фанни никому не говорить, что ребенок - не от него. Он хочет воспитать его, как собственного сына и наследника.