''Serenade'' or ''Schubert's Serenade'' (french: Sérénade) is a 1940 French
historical film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swa ...
directed by
Jean Boyer and starring
Lilian Harvey
Lilian Harvey (born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape; 19 January 1906 – 27 July 1968) was an Anglo-German actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film ''Der Kongr ...
,
Louis Jouvet and
Bernard Lancret
Bernard Lancret (4 September 1912 – 5 September 1983) was a French film actor. He appeared in over thirty films between 1935 and 1956 in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Franz Schubert in the 1940 film '' Sérà ...
. It portrays a fictional romance between the Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
and an English dancer. The film was the first of two the Anglo-German actress Lillian Harvey made in France, after leaving
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
.
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1940 films
French historical romance films
French black-and-white films
1940s historical romance films
1940s French-language films
Films directed by Jean Boyer
Films set in Vienna
Films set in the 19th century
Films about composers
Films about classical music and musicians
Films scored by Paul Abraham
Cultural depictions of Franz Schubert
Depictions of Ludwig van Beethoven on film
Cultural depictions of Klemens von Metternich
Films set in the Austrian Empire
1940s French films
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