''Charlemagne'' is a 1933 French
comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Pierre Colombier
Pierre Colombier (1896–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director.
Selected filmography
Director
* ''The Marriage of Rosine'' (1926)
* '' His Best Client'' (1932)
* ''Charlemagne'' (1933)
* '' School for Coquettes'' (1935)
* ''La Marraine ...
and starring
Raimu
Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946), whose stage name was Raimu, was a French actor. He is most famous for playing César in the 'Marseilles trilogy' ('' Marius'', '' Fanny'' and '' César'').
Life and career
Born in T ...
,
Léon Belières
Léon Belières (1880–1952) was a French film actor.Goble p.202
Selected filmography
* '' Figaro'' (1929)
* '' Levy and Company'' (1930)
* '' A Hole in the Wall'' (1930)
* '' The Road Is Fine'' (1930)
* ''Atlantis'' (1930)
* ''The Mystery of t ...
and
Marie Glory
Marie may refer to:
People Name
* Marie (given name)
* Marie (Japanese given name)
* Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973
* Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...
.
Charlemagne (film) profile
ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 24 July 2015. A group of upper-class passengers on a ship are saved by a stoker who takes them to an island, where he soon rises to be their monarch. The film is based on the 1902 play ''The Admirable Crichton
''The Admirable Crichton'' is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie.
Origins
Barrie took the title from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is p ...
'' by J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several succe ...
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Cast
* Raimu
Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946), whose stage name was Raimu, was a French actor. He is most famous for playing César in the 'Marseilles trilogy' ('' Marius'', '' Fanny'' and '' César'').
Life and career
Born in T ...
- le matelot Charlemagne
* Marie Glory
Marie may refer to:
People Name
* Marie (given name)
* Marie (Japanese given name)
* Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973
* Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...
- Rose Val
* Léon Bélières - le docteur
* Jean Dax
Jean Dax (born Gontran-Théodore-Louis-Henri Willar; 17 September 1879 – 6 June 1962) was a French actor who appeared in more than seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1928 film '' The Crew''Waldman, p. 142
Select ...
- le baron
* Gaston Jacquet
Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet (14 August 1883 – 28 January 1970) was a French actor.
Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland.
Selected filmography
* ''Les Trois Mousquetaires'' (1921)
* ''Th ...
- le directeur
* Lucien Baroux
Lucien Baroux (born Marcel Lucien Barou; 21 September 1888 in Toulouse – 21 May 1968 in Hossegor) was a French actor. He began his career working in the theatre, moving on to a long career in films from the 1930s.
In the field of musical comed ...
- l'auteur
* Christian-Gérard
Christian Gérard Mazas (4 October 1903 – 27 July 1984), known as Christian-Gérard,Sometimes spelt without hyphen. was a French stage and film actor as well as theater director.
Theatre
Comedian
* 1932 : ' by Jacques Deval, directed by J ...
- Bardac
* Auguste Mouriès - le capitaine
* Pierre Piérade
Pierre Piérade (died 1937) was a Belgian stage and film actor.Hardt p.242
Selected filmography
* ''Little Lise'' (1930)
* ''American Love'' (1931)
* '' The Indictment'' (1931)
* ''To the Polls, Citizens'' (1932)
* ''Here's Berlin'' (1932)
* ''Na ...
- Malet
References
External links
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Credits
1933 films
French comedy-drama films
1930s French-language films
Films based on works by J. M. Barrie
Films directed by Pierre Colombier
French black-and-white films
Films about survivors of seafaring accidents or incidents
Films set on uninhabited islands
French films based on plays
1933 comedy-drama films
1930s French films
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