La femme aux Indes (1910) watch online HD

A film full of the bright sights of the Orient, showing the habits of the women of India.

The women in India spend their time in making their toilet, in sweet idleness and in prayer. They are passionately fond of jewelry. Their dress consists of tight trousers with sleeveless waist over which is worn a piece of cloth of more or less value. The poorest of them deck themselves out with jewelry of all kinds. The women of India as a rule are brought up in ignorance. Formerly a widow was supposed to be burnt up with her husband's corpse. To-day, however, she has the choice of becoming a public dancing girl if she wishes to live after her husband's death. In the evening they go in groups to the temple for prayer, throwing flowers by the roadside as they pass along. It is thus we see them in the last picture of this pretty film.