''Élisa'' is a 1957 French historical

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directed by Roger Richebé and starring Dany Carrel, Serge Reggiani and Valentine Tessier. It is based on a novel by Edmond de Goncourt.Goble p.114 It was shot in Eastmancolor. The film's sets were designed by the

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

Jacques Krauss.

Cast

* Dany Carrel as Élisa * Serge Reggiani as Bernard Voisin * Valentine Tessier as Mme. Irma * Marthe Mercadier as Mme Clotilde * Georges Baconnet as Le commissaire * Laurence Badie as Une fille emprisonnée * Guy Bertil as Le jeune homme * Annie Berval as Enerstine * Irène Bréor as Divine * Anne Béranger as Alexandrine * Daniel Ceccaldi as Le coiffeur * Georges Chamarat as Le docteur de la maision de correction * Marie-Hélène Dasté as La mère de Guy * Marpessa Dawn as La négresse * Michel Etcheverry as Le président * Micheline Gary as Gobe Lune * Claude Godard as Lina * Raymond Gérôme as Villedieu * Bernard Lajarrige as M. Granier * Claude Mauduyt as Caroline * Lucien Raimbourg as Bardy * Lysiane Rey as Clairette *

Fernand Sardou Fernand Sardou (18 September 1910 – 31 January 1976La Gloire de Pagnol
p. 235.) was a French singer an ...

as M. Alfred

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1957 films 1957 drama films French drama films 1950s historical films French historical films 1950s French-language films Films directed by Roger Richebé 1950s French films Films based on French novels Films set in the 19th century {{1950s-France-film-stub