The Little Dutch Girl 1915

Founded on Ouida's Novel of Compelling Charm, "Two Little Wooden Shoes."

Directed by Émile Chautard

The old gardener, attracted by the ducks' antics, goes to the lake to find a basket with a baby in it. He becomes her guardian but passes away when she is fourteen, leaving her the house and garden. Beloved by the woodsman Jean, one day Lionel, a famous painter, approaches her to be his model, and she accepts. Eventually she finds herself torn between the two men.