''The Misfortunes of Sophie'' (French: ''Les Malheurs de Sophie'') is a 1946 French
comedy drama film
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
directed by
Jacqueline Audry
Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war ...
and starring
Madeleine Rousset
Madeleine may refer to:
Common meanings
* Madeleine (name), also Madeline, a feminine given name
*Madeleine (cake), a traditional sweet cake from France
* Mary Magdalene, also called the Madeleine
Arts and entertainment
* ''Madelein'' (1919 ...
,
Marguerite Moreno
Marguerite Moreno (born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau; 15 September 1871, Paris - 14 July 1948, Touzac, Lot) was a French stage and film actress.
On 12 September 1900, in England, she married the writer Marcel Schwob, whom she had met in 189 ...
and
Michel Auclair
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, sr-cyr, Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.
Auclair was born to a Serbian fathe ...
.
[Palmer & Michael p.69] The film is based on the novel of the same name by the
Countess of Ségur
Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur, born Sofiya Feodorovna Rostopchina (russian: Софья Фёдоровна Ростопчина; 1 August 1799 in Saint Petersburg – 8 February 1874 in Paris), was a French writer of Russian Empire, Russ ...
.
It was shot at the
Victorine Studios
Victorine Studios (French: Studios de la Victorine) are a film studio in the French city of Nice. They are also known as the Nice Studios. Several small studios have also existed in the city.
Originally built in 1921 in an attempt to create a H ...
in
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...
. 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
Alexandre Trauner
Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer.
After studying painting at Hungarian University of Fin ...
and
Marcel Magniez
Marcel Magniez (born 1888) was a French art director who designed the sets for around forty film productions from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Soister p.281
Selected filmography
* '' Parisian Pleasures'' (1927)
* '' My Aunts and I'' (1937 ...
.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Tim Palmer & Charlie Michael. ''Directory of World Cinema: France''. Intellect Books, 2013.
External links
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1946 films
1946 comedy-drama films
French comedy-drama films
1940s French-language films
Films directed by Jacqueline Audry
Films based on French novels
French black-and-white films
Pathé films
Films shot at Victorine Studios
1940s French films
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