''Stradivarius'' is a 1935
drama film
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directed by
Albert Valentin
Albert Valentin (1908–1968) was a Belgian screenwriter and film director.
Selected filmography
* ''Song of Farewell'' (1934)
* ''Stradivarius'' (1935)
* ''The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938)
* ''Marie-Martine'' (1943)
* ''The Secret of Monte Cr ...
and
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry (born Géza Gyula Mária Bolváry Zahn, german: Géza Maria von Bolváry-Zahn; 26 December 1897 – 10 August 1961) was a Hungarians, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Aust ...
and starring
Pierre Richard-Willm
Pierre Richard-Willm (3 November 1895 – 12 April 1983) was a French stage and film actor during the 1930s and 1940s."Pierre Richard-Willm" aCiné-Ressources Retrieved 1 November 2020.
Biography
Pierre Richard-Willm (originally Alexandre-Pi ...
,
Edwige Feuillère
Edwige Feuillère (born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti; October 29, 1907 – November 13, 1998) was a French stage and film actress.
Biography
She was born Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti to an Italian architect father and an Alsace-born mo ...
, and
Robert Arnoux
Robert Raymond Arnoux (23 October 1899, in Lille – 13 March 1964, in Paris) was a French actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Hantise'' (1922)
* ''Napoléon (1927 film), Napoléon'' (1927) - Un conventionnel (uncredited)
* ''Rive gauche'' (1931) ...
. It was made by
Tobis Film
Tobis Film was a German film production and film distribution company. Founded in the late 1920s as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent to sound films, the organisation emerged as a leading German sound studio. Tob ...
as the French-language version of the film ''
Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari (, also , ; – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, ''Stradivarius'', as well as the colloquia ...
''.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Emil Hasler
Emil Hasler (November 8, 1901 – January 15, 1986) was a German art director who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. These included a number of Weimar classics such as ''Diary of a Lost Girl, M'' and ''The Blue Angel''.Prawe ...
.
Cast
Reception
Writing for ''
Night and Day'' in 1937,
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...
gave the film a poor review, describing it as "the worst film to be seen in London". Greene's main complaint was the unrealistic and overacted effect of "sublimated sexuality" that the titular violin has on the listeners. Greene also criticized the acting of Bercher and Gauthier in the "dreadful hark-back to seventeenth-century Cremona" where Stradivari creates the violin.
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1935 films
German drama films
1935 drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Albert Valentin
Films directed by Géza von Bolváry
Tobis Film films
German multilingual films
German black-and-white films
1935 multilingual films
1930s German films
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