The Mondesir Heir

The Mondesir Heir
The Mondesir Heir
	Film poster
Directed by	Albert Valentin
Written by	Jean Aurenche ; ; Pierre Bost
Produced by	Raoul Ploquin ;
Starring	Fernandel ; Elvire Popesco ; Jules Berry
Cinematography	Ekkehard Kyrath
Edited by	Henri Taverna
Music by	Georges Van Parys
Production; companies	L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne ; UFA
Distributed by	L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date	1 May 1940
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	France ; Germany
Language	French

The Mondesir Heir (French: L'héritier des Mondésir) is a 1940 French-German comedy film directed by Albert Valentin and starring Fernandel, Elvire Popesco and Jules Berry. It was shot in Berlin by the German studio UFA in a co-production arrangement with its own French subsidiary ACE. Made before the Second World War broke out, it was the last of twenty one such productions.^[1]

Cast[]

Fernandel as Bienaimé de Mondésir, le baron de Mondésir & ses aïeux
Elvire Popesco as Erika Axelos
Jules Berry as Waldemar
Gaby André as Janine Richard - La postière
Monette Dinay as Rosette
as L'ordonnateur
Yves Deniaud as Gaston
as Lepetit
Henri Beaulieu as Le colonel
as Le notaire
Marfa d'Hervilly as La cliente de Waldemer
as Martinot
Frédéric Mariotti as Costecalde
Edmond Ardisson as Justin - Le chauffeur
as La première jeune fille du ciel
Édouard Delmont as Firmin - Le majordome des Mondésir
Tramel as Le curé
as Madame Cassard
as Le vitrier
Jacques B. Brunius as Le médecin
as Ginette
as Le marchand de cycles
as Madame Février-Mars
as Le fils du marchand
as Mademoiselle de Picoult
as Marguerite
as La commère
as Le bistro
as Lucette
as Max
as Gaby
as La deuxième jeune fille du ciel
Anna Lefeuvrier as Irma
Palmyre Levasseur as La patronne du bistro
as Raymonde
as L'épicière
as La voisine
as L'ami
as Quatrefages
as Madame Costecalde
Robert Ozanne as Petit rôle
as Xavier
as Le petit vieux
as Chabernac
as Petit rôle
as Clara
as Mado
as Jimmy
as Le charron

References[]

^ Fiss p.136

Bibliography[]

Fiss, Karen. Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

External links[]

The Mondesir Heir at IMDb

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[1] Fiss p.136

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