Sirocco (1938 film)
| Sirocco | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Pierre Chenal |
| Written by | Jacques Companéez Simon Gantillon Pierre Chenal |
| Based on | La maison du Maltais by Jean Vignaud |
| Produced by | Bernard Natan André Parant Charles Smadja Rodolphe Solmsen |
| Starring | Viviane Romance Louis Jouvet Pierre Renoir |
| Cinematography | Curt Courant |
| Edited by | Borys Lewin |
| Music by | Mahieddine Bachtarzi Jacques Ibert |
Production companies | Compagnie Cinématographique de France Gladiator Films |
| Distributed by | Compagnie Cinématographique de France |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Sirocco or The Maltese House (French: La maison du Maltais) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Viviane Romance, Louis Jouvet and Pierre Renoir.[1] It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It is an adaptation of a novel by Jean Vignaud, which had previously been made into the 1928 silent film Karina the Dancer. It has been categorised as a film noir.[3] [4]
Cast
- Viviane Romance as Safia
- Louis Jouvet as Rossignol
- Pierre Renoir as L'archéologue André Chervin
- Jany Holt as Greta
- Marcel Dalio as Matteo Gordina - le Maltais
- Gina Manès as Olga
- Fréhel as Rosina
- Jean Davy as Un ami de Chervin
- Max Dalban as Jules - un ami de Chervin
- Pierre Labry as Le chef de la bande
- Gaston Modot as Le soutier
- Martial Rèbe as Ibrahim le Maltais
- André Gabriello as L'homme volé
- Nina Myral as L'épouse du collectionneur
- Sinoël as Antonin Robillard
- Florence Marly as Diana
- Raymond Aimos as Gégène
- Jacques Erwin as Laurent
- Georges Paulais as Le barman
- Edmond Beauchamp as Le policier
- Anthony Gildès as Un archéologue
- Marguerite de Morlaye as Une invitée
- Robert Moor as Le domestique de Chervin
- Yvonne Yma as La femme qui fait des robes
References
- ^ Kennedy-Karpat p.200
- ^ https://www.unifrance.org/film/35518/la-maison-du-maltais
- ^ Walker-Morrison p.218
- ^ Spicer p.454
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
- Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
- Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.