|
Frères Corses
''The Corsican Brothers'' (French: ''Frères corses'') is a 1939 French drama film directed by Géo Kelber and Robert Siodmak and starring Jean Aquistapace, Pierre Brasseur and Lucienne Le Marchand. https://www.unifrance.org/film/41446/freres-corses It is loosely inspired by the The Corsican Brothers, novella of the same title by Alexandre Dumas. Siodmak supervised the production and shot much of the location shooting, location work in Corsica. Synopsis The attractive Paris, Parisian Gina marries an older Corsican forester, causing turmoil to his twin sons who are both on the receiving end of her advances. Cast * Jean Aquistapace as Bruno Ferrazi * Pierre Brasseur as Tonio * Paul Azaïs as André, le mauvais garçon * Lucienne Le Marchand as Gina * Ruth Pally as Maria * Jean Brochard as Le gendarme * Bruno Clair as Lorenzo * Jacqueline Daix as Laeticia * Jacques Erwin as Angelo * Lucien Gallas as Jérôme, le contrebandier * Zaïa Jollson as Nina * Raymond Rognoni as Le c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as ''The Killers'' (1946). Early life Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak and the brother of Curt, Werner and Roland. His parents were both from Jewish families in Leipzig (the myth of his American birth in Memphis, Tennessee was necessary for him to obtain a visa in Paris during World War II). He worked as a stage director and a banker before becoming editor and scenarist for Curtis Bernhardt in 1925 (Bernhardt directed a film of Siodmak's story ''Conflict'' in 1945). At twenty-six he was hired by his cousin, producer Seymour Nebenzal, to assemble original silent movies from stock footage of old films. Siodmak worked at this for two years before he persuaded Nebenzal to finance his first feature, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |