''A Lover's Return'' (french: Un revenant, french: Le revenant) is a 1946 French
drama film
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directed by
Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), '' ...
.
It was entered into the
1946 Cannes Film Festival
The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946. Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes. Only one year after t ...
.
Plot
Jean-Jacques Sauvage, a theater director believed dead by everyone, is back in Lyon.
Cast
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Louis Jouvet
Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 – 16 August 1951) was a French actor, theatre director and filmmaker.
Early life
Jouvet was born in Crozon. He had a stutter as a young man and originally trained as a pharmacist. He receive ...
as Jean-Jacques Sauvage
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Gaby Morlay
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France. as Geneviève Gonin
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François Périer
François Périer (born François Pillu; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996, with notable excursion into ...
as François Nisard
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Jean Brochard
Jean Brochard (12 March 1893 – 17 June 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1966.
Selected filmography
* '' A Man's Neck'' (1933) - Petit rôle (uncredited)
* ''Boubouroche'' (1933)
* ''La ...
as Jérôme Nisard
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Ludmilla Tchérina
Ludmilla Tchérina (born Monique Tchemerzine; ; 10 October 1924 – 21 March 2004) was a French prima ballerina and actress.
Biography
Tchérina was born Monique Tchemerzine, into Circassian aristocracy as the daughter of Kabardian Prince Ave ...
as Karina
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Hélène Ronsard as La jeune femme
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Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably ''Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 to ...
as Himself / En personne
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Léo Lapara
Léo is a proper noun in French, meaning lion". Its etymological root lies in the Latin word Leo.
Léo is used as a diminutive or variant of the names Léon, Léonard, Léonardon, Leonardo, Léonid, ''Léonor'', '' Léonore'', ''Eléonore'', ...
as Marchal
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Armand Lurville
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*Armand, ...
as Le commissaire (as Lurville)
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Maurice Nasil Maurice may refer to:
People
*Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
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* Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and L ...
as Le cousin
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Max Bozzoni as Serge
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Arthur Hoérée
Arthur Hoérée (16 April 1897, Brussels – 2 June 1986, Paris) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, conductor and composer.
He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels from 1908 to 1912, then at the Conservatoire de Paris.
He was a lecture ...
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Louis Seigner
Louis Seigner (23 June 1903 – 20 January 1991) was a French actor.
He was born in Saint-Chef, Isère, France, the son of Louise (Monin) and Joseph Seigner, and died in Paris. He was the father of actress Françoise Seigner, with Marie Cazeaux, ...
as Edmond Gonin
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Marguerite Moreno
Marguerite Moreno (born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau; 15 September 1871, Paris - 14 July 1948, Touzac, Lot) was a French stage and film actress.
On 12 September 1900, in England, she married the writer Marcel Schwob, whom she had met in 189 ...
as Tante Jeanne
References
External links
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1946 films
1940s French-language films
1946 drama films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Christian-Jaque
Films scored by Arthur Honegger
1940s French films
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