''The Postmaster's Daughter'' (French: ''Nostalgie'') is a 1938 French
historical
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drama film directed by
Viktor Tourjansky and starring
Harry Baur
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor.
Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic ''Beethoven's Gr ...
,
Janine Crispin
Janine Crispin (25 June 1911 – 18 June 2001) was a French film and television actress.Goble p.65
Selected filmography
* ''Court Waltzes'' (1933)
* '' High and Low'' (1933)
* '' Song of Farewell'' (1934)
* '' Second Bureau'' (1935)
* '' The Sec ...
and
. It is an adaptation of
Alexander Pushkin's 1831 short story ''
The Stationmaster''.
[Goble p.378] 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
Serge Piménoff
Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232
Selected filmography
* '' Nights of Princes'' (1930)
* '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931)
* '' Sailor's Song ...
and
Georges Wakhévitch
Georges Wakhévitch (russian: Георгий Леонидович Вахевич; Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director.
The son of a naval ...
.
Cast
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Harry Baur
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor.
Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic ''Beethoven's Gr ...
as Virine, le maitre de poste
*
Janine Crispin
Janine Crispin (25 June 1911 – 18 June 2001) was a French film and television actress.Goble p.65
Selected filmography
* ''Court Waltzes'' (1933)
* '' High and Low'' (1933)
* '' Song of Farewell'' (1934)
* '' Second Bureau'' (1935)
* '' The Sec ...
as Dounia, sa fille
*
as Lieutenant André Minsky
*
Charles Dechamps
Charles Dechamps (13 September 1882 – 25 September 1959) was a French stage and film actor. He married the comedian Fernande Albany on 19 November 1925. He died in 1959, and was buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
Filmography
* 1909: ' ...
as Colonel Raditch
*
René Dary
René Dary (19 July 1905 – 6 October 1974) was a French film actor.Witt & Temple p.150 Dary began his career as a child actor.
Selected filmography
* ''The Lie of Nina Petrovna'' (1937)
* ''S.O.S. Sahara'' (1938)
* '' The Fugitive'' (1947)
* '' ...
as Captain
*
Gina Manès
Gina Manès (born Blanche Moulin; 7 April 1893 – 6 September 1989) was a French film actress and a major star of French silent cinema. After an early appearance in a Louis Feuillade film, she had significant roles in films of Germaine Dulac and ...
as Olga
*
Christiane Ribes Christiane is a given name, a form of the Latin ''Christiana'', feminine form of ''Christianuis'' (see Christian), or a Latinized form of Middle English '' Christin'' 'Christian' (Old English ''christen'', from Latin)..
A short form is Chris. Alt ...
as Lisa
*
Paul Amiot
Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 – 26 January 1979) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973.
In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's ''Être aimé pour soi-même''. He was ...
as Le commissaire
*
Jean Clarieux as Batman
*
Jean Claudio
Jean Claudio (28 March 1927 – 11 January 1992) was a French actor.
Biography
He began his acting career in the cinema at the age of ten, playing the role of the Tsarevich, son of Tsar Nicolas II in The Imperial Tragedy.
In 1938, at t ...
as Boy
*
Hugues de Bagratide as Consumer
*
Pierre Labry
Pierre Labry (1885–1948) was a French stage and film actor.Capua p.122 He was active in the French film industry between 1920 and 1948, appearing in more than a hundred films.
Selected filmography
* ''La croisade'' (1920)
* ''Gigolette'' (1921 ...
as Stable Boy
*
Palmyre Levasseur as Nanny
*
Georges Paulais as Merchant
*
Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.
Pérès was ...
as Manserv
References
Bibliography
* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1935–1939''. Pygmalion, 1986.
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929–1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.
* Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1938 films
French drama films
1938 drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Victor Tourjansky
French black-and-white films
1930s French films
Films set in the 19th century
French historical films
1930s historical films
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