''Misdeal'' (French: ''Maldone'') is a 1928 French silent drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Charles Dullin, Marcelle Dullin and

Geymond Vital Geymond Vital (24 January 1897 – 6 December 1987) was a French film, stage and television actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the ...

.Levine p.190 The film's sets were designed by

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

André Barsacq. The film tells the story of a wealthy young man flees from his family's estate, and finds employment as a canal worker. He falls in love with a gypsy girl, but when a death in the family requires him to return home and run his estate, he marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later, he becomes obsessed with his old lover after a chance meeting.

Cast

* Charles Dullin as Olivier Maldone * Marcelle Dullin as Missia, la voyante *

as Marcellin Maldone *

André Bacqué André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation ...

as Juste Maldone, l'oncle *

George Seroff George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...

as Léonard, le serviteur *

Annabella Annabella, Anabella, or Anabela is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Annabella of Scotland (c. 1433–1509), daughter of King James I *Annabella (actress) (1907–1996), stage name of French actress Suzanne Georgette C ...

as Flora Lévigné * Roger Karl as Lévigné père *

Mathilde Alberti Mathilde is an alternative spelling of the names Matilde or Matilda, and could refer to: *Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez (1901 –1957), Argentinian vertebrate paleontologist * Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (949–1011) * Mathilde Alanic (1864-1948), Fre ...

as L'épicière * Lucien Arnaud as Le voyageur * Genica Athanasiou as Zita *

Edmond Beauchamp Edmond Beauchamp (3 March 1900 – 3 June 1985), sometimes credited only as Beauchamp, was a French film and Broadway stage actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1928 and 1979. Partial filmography * '' Misdeal'' (1928) - Le gitan (uncredi ...

as Le gitan *

Alexej Bondireff Alexej is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Alexej Čepička * Alexej Jaškin * Alexej Pludek, Czech writer * Alexej Prochorow, German weightlifter * Alexej Stachowitsch * Alexej von Jawlensky * Josef Alexej Eisenberger See al ...

as Le patron de la péniche * Gabrielle Fontan *

Isabelle Kloucowski Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of ''Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheva''), Arising in the 12th century, it became popula ...

as La gitane *

Charles Lavialle Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

as Le facteur * Daniel Lecourtois as Un danseur *

Jean Mamy Jean Mamy (8 July 1912, Chambéry, Savoie – 29 March 1949, Arcueil) was a French actor, producer, film and theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and journalist, notable for directing the anti-Masonic propaganda film '' Forces occultes'' ...

as Un marinier

References

Bibliography

* Levine, Alison. ''Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France''. A&C Black, 2011.

External links

* 1928 films French drama films French silent feature films 1928 drama films 1920s French-language films Films directed by Jean Grémillon Films set in France French black-and-white films Silent drama films 1920s French films {{1920s-France-film-stub