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LA REINE MARGOT
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La Reine Margot is a French film realized by Jean Dréville, release in 1954 on a scenario of Abel Gance according to the novel of Alexandre Dumas father. It is the first French film made color.
Personal comments : Louis de Funès is not marked in the credits, he plays the role of a learned alchemist, he appears :
- 10 seconds at 9 minutes and 39 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 1 second at 10 minutes and 42 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 1 minute and 39 seconds at 1 hour, 6 minutes and 27 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 2 minutes and 29 seconds at 1 hour, 22 minutes and 51 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 54 seconds at 1 hour, 36 minutes and 12 seconds after the beginning of the movie
♦ Synopsis :
Life at the court and with Paris around the massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in August 1572.
♦ Specification sheet :
- Title : La reine Margot
- Realization : Jean Dréville
- Scenario : According to the novel of Alexandre Dumas
- Adaptation : Abel Gance, Jacques Companeez
- Dialogue : paul Andréota
- Production assistants : Louis Pascal, Jean Lefèvre, Carlo Lombardini
- Artistic adviser : Georges Guyonnet
- Images : Henri Alekan, assisted of Roger Aubert
- Operator : Gustave Raulet, assisted of Jean-Marie Maillols, Roland Paillas
- Music : Paul Misraki - Direction musical : Marc Lanjean
- Decorations : Henri Schmitt and Maurice Colasson, assisted of Jacques d'Ovidio and Alexandre Hinkins
- Suits : Rosine Delamare, assisted of Georgette Fillon and Pierre Marcade
- Execution of suits : Mme Gromtzeff
- Duels adjusted by Maître Gardère
- Editing : Gabriel Rongier
- Sound : Emile Lagarde
- Make-up : Georges Bouban, Omer Bouban, Janine Jarreau
- Photographer of tray : Emile Lowenthal
- Script-girl : Lucile Costa
- General manager : Jacques Pignier, assisted of Hubert Mérial
- Interior designer : Jean Alexandre
- Shooting from April 22nd till August 12th, 1954 in the studios of Epinay-sur-Seine
- Film 35mm, color by Eastmancolor
- Production : Lux Films, Films Vendome (Paris) - Lux Films (Rome) - (Franco Italian)
- Leader of production : Adolphe Osso, Claude Plessis, Pierre Gurco-Salice
- Director of production : Armand Bécue
- Distribution : Lux
- First presentation the 25/11/1954
- Duration : 93mn
- Genre : Historic drama
- Visa of exploitation : 15278
♦ Distribution :
- Louis de Funès : René Bianchi, the learned alchemist of Catherine of Médicis
- Jeanne Moreau : Marguerite De Valois "La reine Margot"
- Armando Francioli : Joseph Lerac De La Mole
- Henri Génès : Hannibal De Coconas
- Robert Porte : Charles IX
- André Versini : Henri De Navarre
- Françoise Rosay : Catherine De Médicis
- Vittorio Sanipoli : Maurevel
- Fiorella Mari : Henriette De Nevers
- Patrizia Lari : Charlotte De Sauve
- Daniel Ceccaldi : Henri d'Anjou
- Jacques Eyser : Caboche
- Guy Kerner : Duke Henri De Guise
- Louis Arbessier : Admiral Gaspard De Coligny
- Nicole Riche : Gilonne
- Jean Temerson : Innkeeper of La Belle Etoile
- Robert Moor : Prosecutor
- Olivier Mathot : Pierre
- Jean-Roger Caussimon : governor of the prison
- Jean Lanier : Ambroise Paré
- Marc Valbel : The voice narrator
- Jacques Toja : Voice of Armando Francioli
- Georges Demas : A guard
- Pierre-Jacques Moncorbier : A huguenot
- Paquerette : A woman in the inn
- Serge Sauvion : The guard of the chapel
- Jean Thielment : The help of the executioner
- Jacques Bézard
- René Blancard
- Jean-Marie Bon
- André Collombet
- Jean Duval
- Carlo Lombardi
- Jean Morel
- Guy Saint-Clair
- Jean-Claude Remoleux
♦ Around the film :
- Another adaptation of the novel of Dumas in 1994 by Patrice Chéreau with Isabelle Adjani. See : La Reine Margot.
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