Louisiane

Louisiane (1984)

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.

Data di uscita
1984-01-25
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (5)
Durata
3 h 6 min
Generi
Dramma, Storia, Romance
Regista
Philippe de Broca

Cast

Curiosità

  • Basato su: Louisiana e False River

Louisiana is a 1984 Franco-Italian - Canadian film directed by Philippe de Broca. The film score was composed by Claude Bolling.

Production

John Kemeny and Denis Héroux produced Louisiana. The film had a budget of $13.5 million. A large amount of the budget came from TV pre-sales. and Super Channel, which contributed to three Kemeny and Héroux productions, gave $1.5 million to Louisiana.

Maurice Denuzière's books Louisiane and Fausse Rivière were adapted into a screenplay by Étienne Pèrier, Dominique Fabre, and Charles E. Israel. Both a film and six-hour miniseries were shot, with characters in the miniseries that did not appear in the film version.

Margot Kidder, whose first feature role was in a film produced by Kemeny (The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar), was cast to play the lead. Kidder was one of the few people working for the movie with a contractual right to refuse overtime work and utilize it to give time off for fellow workers who did not have the right.

The film was an international coproduction between France and Canada.

The film was shot from 5 April to 31 July 1983, in Saint Francisville, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Paris at a cost of $15 million. From 5 April to 3 July the film was shot in Louisiana and shot in Paris from 19 to 31 July. Jacques Demy was the director until 3 May, when he was replaced by Philippe de Broca and left uncredited.

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