Vertigo (1935 film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Paul Schiller |
Written by | Paul Fékété René Guissart Paul Schiller |
Based on | Vertigo by Charles Méré |
Produced by | Fred Bacos |
Starring | Alice Field André Burgère Jean Toulout |
Cinematography | André Dantan Enzo Riccioni |
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Distributed by | Société Anonyme Française Fox Film |
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Country | France |
Language | French |
Vertigo (French: Le vertige) is a 1935 French drama film directed by Paul Schiller and starring Alice Field, André Burgère and Jean Toulout.[1] It is based on a 1922 play of the same title by Charles Méré, which had previously been made into the 1926 silent film Le Vertige directed by Marcel L'Herbier.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. It was produced and distributed by the French subsidiary of Fox Film.
Synopsis
[edit]Natacha Mikailovna married General Mikailoff after he shot and killed her lover during the Russian Civil War. Now White Russian émigrés living in Paris, she encounters a man who strangely resembles her dead former lover.
Cast
[edit]- Alice Field as Natacha Mikailovna
- André Burgère as Henri de Cassel
- Jean Toulout as Général Mikailoff
- Arletty as Emma
- Rachel Devirys as La princesse Koupiska
- Paul Pauley as Charançon
- Pierre Moreno as Le premier valet
- Micheline Bernard as L'arpète
- Andrews Engelmann as Petrov
- René Génin as Le deuxième valet
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
- Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.