Stradivarius (film)
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Cinematography | Werner Brandes |
Edited by | Hermann Haller |
Music by | Alois Melichar |
Production company | Boston Film |
Distributed by | Films Sonores Tobis |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | French |
Stradivarius is a 1935 drama film directed by Albert Valentin and Géza von Bolváry and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Edwige Feuillère, and Robert Arnoux.[1] It was made by Tobis Film as the French-language version of the film Stradivari.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.
Cast[]
- Pierre Richard-Willm as Sándor Teleky
- Edwige Feuillère as Maria Belloni
- Robert Arnoux as Imre Berczy
- as Irène Kardos
- Jean Galland as Dr. Pietro Rossi
- Jean Toulout as Professor Hoefer
- as Antonio Stradivari
- as Nicolo Amati
- Jacques Erwin as Officier
- Marcella Albani
- Paul Amiot
- Junie Astor
- as Une infirmière
- Victor Vina
Reception[]
Writing for in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "the worst film to be seen in London". Greene's main complaint was the unrealistic and overacted effect of "sublimated sexuality" that the titular violin has on the listeners. Greene also criticized the acting of Bercher and Gauthier in the "dreadful hark-back to seventeenth-century Cremona" where Stradivari creates the violin.[2]
References[]
- ^ Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl, p. 125.
- ^ Greene, Graham (19 August 1937). "Slave-Ship/Stradivarius/Woman Chases Man". . (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 0192812866.)
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
- Passerini, Luisa; Labanyi, Jo; Diehl, Karen, eds. (2012). Europe and Love in Cinema. Bristol: Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-672-2.
External links[]
- Stradivarius at IMDb
Categories:
- 1935 films
- French-language films
- German films
- German drama films
- 1935 drama films
- Films directed by Albert Valentin
- Films directed by Géza von Bolváry
- Tobis Film films
- German multilingual films
- German black-and-white films
- 1935 multilingual films
- 1930s German film stubs