Maldone
Misdeal | |
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Directed by | Jean Grémillon |
Written by | Alexandre Arnoux |
Produced by | Charles Dullin |
Starring | Charles Dullin Geymond Vital |
Cinematography | Christian Matras Georges Périnal |
Edited by | Henriette Pinson |
Music by | Marcel Delannoy Jean Grémillon |
Production company | La Société des Films Charles Dullin |
Release date | 14 September 1928 |
Country | France |
Languages | Silent French intertitles |
Misdeal (French: Maldone) is a 1928 French silent drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Charles Dullin, and Geymond Vital.[1] The film's sets were designed by art director André Barsacq. The film tells the story of a wealthy young man flees from his family's estate, and finds employment as a canal worker. He falls in love with a gypsy girl, but when a death in the family requires him to return home and run his estate, he marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later, he becomes obsessed with his old lover after a chance meeting.
Cast[]
- Charles Dullin as Olivier Maldone
- as Missia, la voyante
- Geymond Vital as Marcellin Maldone
- as Juste Maldone, l'oncle
- as Léonard, le serviteur
- Annabella as Flora Lévigné
- Roger Karl as Lévigné père
- as L'épicière
- Lucien Arnaud as Le voyageur
- Genica Athanasiou as Zita
- Edmond Beauchamp as Le gitan
- as Le patron de la péniche
- Gabrielle Fontan
- as La gitane
- as Le facteur
- Daniel Lecourtois as Un danseur
- Jean Mamy as Un marinier
References[]
- ^ Levine p.190
Bibliography[]
- Levine, Alison. Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France. A&C Black, 2011.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1928 films
- French films
- French drama films
- French silent feature films
- 1928 drama films
- French-language films
- Films directed by Jean Grémillon
- Films set in France
- French black-and-white films
- 1920s French film stubs