''The Adventures of Gil Blas'' (French: ''Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane'', Spanish: ''Una aventura de Gil Blas'') is a 1956 French–Spanish
adventure film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...
directed by
René Jolivet
René Jolivet (1898–1975) was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-directed the 1956 adventure film ''The Adventures of Gil Blas''.Klossner p.11
Selected filmography
* ''Women's Prison'' (1938)
* ''Angelica'' (1939)
* ''La tradition d ...
and
Ricardo Muñoz Suay
Ricardo Muñoz Suay (28 August 1917 – 2 August 1997) was a Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter. He was one of the editors of the film magazine '' Objetivo'' which was published from 1953 to 1956. He was a member of the Commu ...
and starring
Georges Marchal,
Barbara Laage
Barbara Laage (30 July 1920 – 21 May 1988) was a French film actress who flourished in the 1950s.
After fleeing Paris with her family during the German occupation in World War II, Laage returned to the city after the war and commenced her acti ...
and
Susana Canales
Susana Canales Niaucel (5 September 1933 – 22 March 2021) was a Spanish film and television actress. Initially a child actor she switched to playing grown-up parts in the early 1950s. She starred in the 1951 drama ''Black Sky'' (1951).
Canale ...
.
[Goble p.678] It is based on the eighteenth century novel ''
Gil Blas'' by
Alain-René Lesage
Alain-René Lesage (; 6 May 166817 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel '' The Devil upon Two Sticks'' (1707, ''Le Diable boiteux''), his comedy ''Turcaret'' (170 ...
.
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 ...
s
Sigfrido Burmann
Sigfrido Burmann or Siegfried Burmann (1891–1980) was a German-born Spanish art director.Mira p.249 He was the father of Wolfgang Burmann, who also became an art director.
Selected filmography
* ''White Mission'' (1946)
* ''Ninety Minutes'' (194 ...
and
René Hubert.
Cast
*
Georges Marchal as Gil Blas de Santillane
*
Barbara Laage
Barbara Laage (30 July 1920 – 21 May 1988) was a French film actress who flourished in the 1950s.
After fleeing Paris with her family during the German occupation in World War II, Laage returned to the city after the war and commenced her acti ...
as Antonia Caldera
*
Susana Canales
Susana Canales Niaucel (5 September 1933 – 22 March 2021) was a Spanish film and television actress. Initially a child actor she switched to playing grown-up parts in the early 1950s. She starred in the 1951 drama ''Black Sky'' (1951).
Canale ...
as Doña Caldera Mencia
*
Jacques Castelot
Jacques Castelot (born Jacques Marie Paul Éloi Storms) (11 July 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the S ...
as Marquis de Mosquera
*
Marthe Mercadier
Marthe Mercadier (23 October 1928 – 15 September 2021) was a French actress.
Filmography
Awards
* In 1974, she was named Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
* In 1989, she won the ''Molière Award'' of the Best Comic Show.
* In 2007, she was n ...
as Serafina
*
Antonio Riquelme
Antonio García-Riquelme Salvador (9 November 1894 – 20 March 1968), better known as Antonio Riquelme, was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1911 and 1967.
Selected filmography
* ''El fantasma del castill ...
as Dr. Sangrado
*
Georgette Anys
Georgette Anys (15 July 1909 – 4 March 1993) was a French film and television actress. A character actress, she appeared mainly in French productions, but also some American films which were shot in Europe including Alfred Hitchcock's ''To Catch ...
as Maria
*
Jean Lefebvre
Jean Marcel Lefebvre (3 October 1919Some sources indicate he was born in 1922. – 9 July 2004) was a French film actor.
His erratic studies were interrupted by World War II. Taken prisoner and then requisitioned as a laborer, he escaped to joi ...
as Scipion
*
Claude May
Claude May (1913–2009) was a French film actress
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 theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, ...
as Camille
*
Fernando Rey
Fernando Casado Arambillet (La Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, i ...
as Capitaine Rolando
*
Claire Maurier
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947.
Life and career
Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune ...
as Paquita
*
Carlos Larrañaga
Carlos Larrañaga Ladrón de Guevara (11 March 1937 – 30 August 2012) was a Spanish actor.
Biography Personal life
Larrañaga was born in Barcelona to actress María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara, and was the half-brother of actress Amparo ...
as Le Prince
*
Alexandre Rignault as L'aubergiste
*
Paul Demange as Lamela
*
Paul Préboist as Un homme de l'escorte
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland & Company, 2002.
External links
1956 films
Films directed by René Jolivet
Films directed by Ricardo Muñoz Suay
1950s French-language films
Spanish historical adventure films
French historical adventure films
1950s historical adventure films
Films set in the 16th century
1956 adventure films
Films scored by Augusto Algueró
1950s French films
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