The Eternal Return (film)

The Eternal Return
The Eternal Return
Directed by	Jean Delannoy
Written by	Jean Cocteau
Produced by	André Paulvé
Starring	Madeleine Sologne; Jean Marais ; Jean Murat
Cinematography	Roger Hubert
Edited by	Suzanne Fauvel
Music by	Georges Auric
Production; company	Films André Paulvé
Distributed by	DisCina
Release date	13 October 1943
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Eternal Return (French: L'Éternel retour) is a 1943 French romantic drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais.^[1] The screenplay was written by Jean Cocteau as a retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in comtemporary France. In the United Kingdom the film was released in 1946 by Eagle-Lion Distributors under the alternative title Love Eternal.

It was made at the Victorine Studios in Nice with sets designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. The film's costumes were by Georges Annenkov. Location shooting took place at the Chateau de Pesteils in Polminhac. It premiered in Vichy and was one of the greatest commercial hits of the occupation period.^[2]

Cast[]

Madeleine Sologne as Nathalie, the blonde
Jean Marais as Patrice
Jean Murat as Marc
Junie Astor as Nathalie, the brunette
Roland Toutain as Lionel
Jane Marken as Anne
Jean d'Yd as Amédée Frossin
as Achille Frossin
Yvonne de Bray as Gertrude Frossin
Alexandre Rignault as Morholt

References[]

^ L'Éternel retour (1943) at the Films de France
^ Lanzoni p.140

Bibliography[]

Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier . French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. A&C Black, 2004.

External links[]

The Eternal Return at IMDb
L'Éternel retour (1943) at the Films de France

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[1] L'Éternel retour (1943) at the Films de France

[2] Lanzoni p.140

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Bibliography
Literature	Antigone Orphée Les Enfants terribles The Human Voice Opium: Diary of a Cure The Infernal Machine Les Parents terribles L'Aigle à deux têtes
Films directed	The Blood of a Poet Beauty and the Beast L'aigle à deux têtes Les Parents terribles Orpheus La Villa Santo-Sospir Testament of Orpheus
Films written	The Phantom Baron L'Éternel retour Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Les Enfants terribles Ruy Blas The Black Crown La Princesse de Clèves Thomas the Impostor
Librettos	Parade Les mariés de la tour Eiffel Oedipus rex Le jeune homme et la mort
Ballets	Le Bœuf sur le toit
Related	Bastion Museum Jean Cocteau House Jean Cocteau Museum Jean Marais The Orphic Trilogy

v t Tristan and Iseult
Characters	Anguish of Ireland Brangaine Iseult Kahedin Mark of Cornwall Meliodas Morholt Tristan
Medieval sources	Thomas of Britain's Tristran Béroul's Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan Prose Tristan "Cligès" "Chevrefoil" Folie Tristan d'Oxford Sir Tristrem
Later literature	Tristram and Iseult (1852) Tristram of Lyonesse (1882) Tristan (1903) Finnegans Wake (1939) Tristan and Iseult (1971) Arthur Rex (1978) The Old French Tristan Poems (1980)
Music	Tristan und Isolde (1865, Wagner) Discography Tristan chord "Liebestod" Souvenirs de Munich (ca. 1887) Turangalîla-Symphonie (1949, Messiaen) Tristan (1975, Henze) Qntal III: Tristan und Isolde (2003) "Tristan" (2005)
Film	The Eternal Return (1943) The Woman Next Door (1981) Lovespell (1981) Fire and Sword (1982) In the Shadow of the Raven (1988) Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Art	Tristan Quilt Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels Tristan and Isolde (Egusquiza)