The Eternal Return (film)
1943 French film
- 13 October 1943 (1943-10-13)
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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 contemporary France.[2][3] In the United Kingdom, the film was released in 1946 by Eagle-Lion Distributors under the alternative title Love Eternal.[4]
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.[5][6][citation needed]
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
- Piéral [fr] as Achille Frossin
- Yvonne de Bray as Gertrude Frossin
- Alexandre Rignault as Morholt[2]
References
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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Films directed by Jean Delannoy
- Paris-Deauville (1934)
- Tamara (1938)
- Golden Venus (1938)
- The Black Diamond (1941)
- Fever (1942)
- Gambling Hell (1942)
- The Murderer Is Afraid at Night (1942)
- Colonel Pontcarral (1942)
- The Eternal Return (1943)
- The Hunchback (1944)
- Blind Desire (1945)
- Pastoral Symphony (1946)
- Les jeux sont faits (1947)
- To the Eyes of Memory (1948)
- The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
- God Needs Men (1950)
- Savage Triangle (1951)
- The Moment of Truth (1952)
- Napoleon Road (1953)
- Daughters of Destiny (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- Obsession (1954)
- The Little Rebels (1955)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Guinguette (1959)
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- La Princesse de Clèves (1961)
- Rendezvous (1961)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- Les amitiés particulières (1964)
- The Majordomo (1965)
- The Double Bed (1965)
- The Sultans (1966)
- Action Man (1967)
- Children of Mata Hari (1970)
- Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)
- The Crime of Pierre Lacaze (1983)
- The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987)
- Bernadette (1988)
- The Passion of Bernadette (1990)
- Mary of Nazareth (1995)
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