Farandole (1945)
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
- Date of release
- 1945-02-10
- TMDB
- 3.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- André Zwobada
Casting
- Gaby Morlay — Actress
- André Luguet — Banker
- André Alerme — Crook
- Lise Delamare — Blanche
- Paulette Dubost — Tart
- Jany Holt — Marianne
- Bernard Blier — Sylvestre
- Henri Charrett
- Maurice Salabert
- Jean Davy — Lawyer
- Alfred Adam — Ponce
- Maurice Escande — Prosecutor
Interesting facts
Farandole is a 1945 French comedy film directed by André Zwoboda and starring André Luguet, Lise Delamare, Gaby Morlay. It takes its title from the Farandole, a traditional dance from Provence whose structure the plot follows. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert. It was filmed following the Liberation but released while the Second World War was still being fought.
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