Schubert's Serenade (1940)
Sérénade
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
- Date of release
- 1940-02-28
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Jean Boyer
Casting
- Lilian Harvey — Margaret Brenton
- Louis Jouvet — Le baron Hartmann
- Bernard Lancret — Franz Schubert
- Félix Oudart — Schwindt, le directeur
- Roger Bourdin — Vogl
- Marcel Lupovici — L'ami de Schubert
- Auguste Bovério — Beethoven
- Marcel Vallée — Hostlinger, le editeur
- Alexandre Rignault — Le gendarme
- Pierre Magnier — Le Prince Metternich
- René Stern — Un élégant
- Madeleine Suffel — Anny
Interesting facts
Serenade or Schubert's Serenade is a 1940 French historical film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilian Harvey, Louis Jouvet and Bernard Lancret. It portrays a fictional romance between the Austrian composer Franz Schubert and an English dancer. The film was the first of two the Anglo-German actress Lillian Harvey made in France, after leaving Nazi Germany.
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