In the Sun of Marseille

1938 French film
  • Audiffred (operetta)
  • Marc Cab (operetta)
  • Charles Tutelier (operetta)
Produced byHenri UllmannStarring
  • Henri Garat
  • Mireille Ponsard
  • Gorlett
CinematographyFred LangenfeldMusic byGeorges Sellers
Production
company
Productions Henri Ullmann
Distributed byConsortium du Film
Release date
  • 4 May 1938 (1938-05-04)
Running time
85 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

In the Sun of Marseille (French: Au soleil de Marseille) is a 1938 French musical sports film directed by Pierre-Jean Ducis and starring Henri Garat, Mireille Ponsard and Gorlett. It was one of a cluster of films made with southern French settings during the era.[1]

An operetta film, it portrays the lives of a group of football-loving factory workers who travel to Belgium for a match.

The film's sets were designed by Lucien Jaquelux.

Cast

  • Henri Garat as Henri
  • Mireille Ponsard as Mimi Cassis
  • Gorlett as Fenouil
  • Zizi Festerat as Van Meulenbeek
  • Rittche as Sidol
  • Henry as Jef le douanier
  • Mado France as Maricke
  • Henri Vilbert as Marius
  • Charles Lemontier as Le contrôleur
  • Caro Devère as Simone Van Meulenbeek
  • Germaine Sablon as Ginette
  • Fernand Charpin as M. Cassis

References

  1. ^ Crisp p.59

Bibliography

  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

  • In the Sun of Marseille at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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