La Cinématographie Française (1937)

name of tliose filins on which full details are to be found in previous issues. Pépé le Moko, directed bv Julien Duvivier, with Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin. Mademoiselle Docte r. directed by G. W. Pabst, with Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay. Les Perles de la Couronne (Pearls of th< Crown), written and directed by Sacha Guitry. Le Mensonge de Nina Peirovna (Nina Petrovna’s Lie), directed by Tourjanskï. with Fernand Gravey and Isa Miranda. La Bataille Silencieuse (The Silent Batlle) directed by Pierre Billon, with Kate de Nagy, Pierre Fresnay, Michel Simon. Regain, by Jean Giono, directed by Marcel Pagnol. La Dame de Pique (The Queen of Spades), directed by Fédor Ozep, with Pierre Blanchar, Marguerite Moreno, André Luguet. Un Carnet de Bal (Dance Program), written and directed by Julien Duvivier, with 8 big French stars. Gribouille, written by Marcel Achard and directed by Marc Allégret, with Raimu and Michèle Morgan. Le Messager (The Messanger) from Henri Bernstein’s play, directed by Raymond Rouleau, with Gaby Morlay, Jean Gabin. Abus de Confiance (Abuse of Confidence), directed by Henri Decoin, with Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel, Valentine Tessier. La Citadelle du Silence (Citadel of Silence), directed by Marcel l’Herbier, with Annabella, Pierre Renoir. Mademoiselle ma Mère, from the play, by Louis Verneuil, directed by Henri Decoin, with Danielle Darrieux. Gueule d’ Amour (produced in Berlin, Lia studios), directed by Jean Grémillon, wilh Jean Gabin and Mireille Balin. L'Homme de nulle part (The Late Mathias Pascal, by Luigi Pirandello, produced in Italy), directed by Pierre Chenal, with Pierre Blanchar and Isa Miranda. Drôle de Drame (His First Ocence), from a novel by J. Storer-Clouston, directed by Marcel Carné, with Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Nadine Vogel. Nostalgie, from Pouchkine’s novel « The Post Master », directed by Tourjanski, witn Georges Rigaud, Harry Baur. La Dame de Malaccu, by François de Croisset, directed by Marc Allégret. Sœurs d’ Armes (Sisters in Arras), written and directed by Léon Poirier. L'Escadrille de la Chance (Lucky Squadron), directed by Max de Vaucorbeil, with Lily Damita and Charles Vanel. Alibi, by Marcel Achard, directed by Pierre Chenal, with Albert Préjean, Jany Holt, Erich von Stroheim, Louis Jouvet. Les Hommes sans Nom (Men without pâmes) a film on the French Foreign Légion, directed by Jean Vallée. Passeurs d’ Hommes (produced in Belgium), directed by René Jayet. Les Nuits Blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg, from Tolstoi’s novel, directed by Jean Dreville, with Gaby Morlay. Ces Dames aux Chapeauk Verts, from the novel by Germaine Acremant, directed by Maurice Cloche. La Liberté (Liberty), a film based on the life of the famous sculptor Bartholdi. La Mort du Cygne (Death of the Swan), from Morand’s novel, directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein, a film depicting the life of the child-dancers of the Paris Opéra House. Forfaiture (The Cheat) A. French Talking version of the famous silent film by Ceml B. de Mille, with Sessue Hayakawa, in his original rôle, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, and Victor Francen, directed by Marcel L’Herbier. Naples au Baiser de Feu, directed by Auguste Genina. with the famous French singer Tino Rossi ans Mireille Balin. L'Affaire du Courrier de Lyon (The Lyon’s Mail), the famous French criminal case, directed by Maurice Lehmann, with Pierre Blanchar, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, Dita Parlo, Dorville, Gilberte Génial. Maman Colibri, from Henry Bataille’s play, directed by Jean Dréville. Ma petite Marquise, a charming family film, directed by Robert Péguy. Rendez-Vous Champs-Elysées, an amusing French comedy on life in Paris. Désiré, written and directed by Sacha Guitry, with Sacha Guitry. Le Puritain (The Puritan) by Linm O’Flaherty, directed by Jeff Musso, with Pierre Fresnay, Viviane Romance. Claudine à l'école, from Colette’s famous novel. Directed by Serge de Poligny. 35 FILMS COMPLETED BUT NOT YET TRADE SHOWN 12 FILMS IN THE MAKING At the présent time there are about 35 French films completed but not yet trafic shown, and 12 in the making. The most important are : La Marseillaise, an ambitions historical film, subsidized by the French Trade Lu ion s and Workers. Original story and direction by Jean Jean Renoir. Action is in Marseilles and Paris in 1792, during the French révolution. Les Pirates du Ridl (Pirates of the Railway), directed by Christian Jaque, from a novel by O. P. Gilbert. Action set in IndoChina. L’Affaire Lafarge (The Lafarge Case) directed by Pierre Chenal, treating the famous French criminal case of the 19th century. Mollenard, from a novel by O. P. Gilbert. Directed by Robert Siodmak, with Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Pierre Renoir. Les Filles du Rhône, a film made entirely on location in the South of France, in Camargue, directed by Jean-Paul Paulin. Hercule, an original story by Carlo Rim; directed by Alexandre Esway. Raspoutine, from the novel by Alfred Neumann, directed by Marcel L’Herbier, with Harry Baur, Pierre Richard Willm, Marcelle Chantal, Jany Holt. Gruge (The Storm) from Le Venin, a play by Henri Bernstein. This film, directed by Marc Allégret stars Charles Boyer, in his first French film since Mayerling. Quadrille, the adaptation of the latest Sacha Guitry play, written, played and directed by its author. Cast includes : Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Gaby Morlay. Nuits de Princes, an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel on the life of White Russians 296 in Paris, since the Russian Révolution. Directed by Strijewski. La Femme du bout du Monde, directed by Jean Epstein, made on location in Brittany. Prisons sans Barreaux, based on the life of girls in reformatory schools. Directed by Leonide Moguy. Les Gens du Voyage, a film on circus life, directed by Jacques Feyder, in French and Germa n versions, made at the Bavaria Studios at Munich. Tempête sur l'Asie (Storm over Asia), directed by Richard Oswald, with Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa. Monsieur Victor, directed by Jean Grémillon, with Raimu, Pierre Blanchar, Viviane Romance, Madeleine Renaud. 80 NEW PICTURES ANNOUNCED An important number of French pictures are announced for production in the ne ir future. Among those announced : Adrienne Découvreur, by Alexandre Dumas, jr. which will be produced at the Ufa studios, Berlin, with Yvonne Printemps and Pierre Fresnay, in the leading rôles. Altitude 3.200, the play by Jean Luchaire, to be directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy. The Life of Jean-Jaurès, to be directed by Pierre Chenal. Guynemer's Héroic Life, an original story by René Hervouin. La Rue sans Joie, from Hugo Bettauer’s novel. Le Patriote, by Alfred Neumann, to be directed by André Legrand. Le Joueur, by Dostoiewsky. S. O. S. Sahara, to be directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Quartier Latin 1938, by Maurice Dekobra L’Affaire Laury, Henry Bordeaux’s novel Retour à l'Aube, a novel by Vieki Banni. War and Peace by Tolstoi. Trois de St-Cyr, a film on life in the the famous French military school. The Southern Trait, by O. P. Gilbert. Sainte Hélène, by Charles Spaak. Manon Lescaut, the famous French novel by Abbé Prévost. Le Drame de Shanghaï, directed by G. W. Pabst. Moi le Mort, by Frank Toussaint. Sarajevo, by Joseph Kessel. Volpone, from Ben Johnson’s play. TRENDS OF FRENCH PRODUCTION FOR 1938 The above speaks for itself. Good films bring more patrons to the cinémas and better sales on foreign markets. The impetus of French Production, if it is not stopped by soine unepected trouble, may be calculated, to incraese still more during the coming year. The recent successes of French films lias aroused a new world-wide interest in them. In face of these excellent results confidence in them lias returned to French bankers and the financement and the amortization of the French film will be less difficult in the future. Now, one can say, without mistake. that the French Production is entirely settled, and promises the greatest activity and success. B. Fraser and P. Autré.