Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.3/10   

Réalisateur:

Jacqueline Audry

Writers:

Ennio De Concini (writer)
Pierre Laroche (dialogue)

Release Date:

24 septembre 1959 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedie

Plot:

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to...

Avis des utilisateurs:

Suffragette Jacqueline Audry

Ensemble

Andrée Debar	...	Geneviève de Beaumont aka Charles - chevalier d'Éon
Isa Miranda	...	La tzarine Elisabeth Petrovna
Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
Bernard Blier	...	Le baron d'Exter
Jean Desailly	...	Louis XV
Simone Valère	...	La marquise de Pompadour
René Lefèvre	...	Le comte Antoine d'Éon
Jacques Castelot	...	Le marquis de l'Hospital
Bernard La Jarrige	...	Pascal d'Éon de Beaumont (as Bernard Lajarrige)
Dany Robin	...	La comtesse de Monval
Maryse Martin	...	Georgette
Gisèle Grandpré	...	Blanche d'Eon de Beaumont - la nièce du comte d'Eon
Hélène Tossy
Marcel Lupovici
Olivier Mathot

Autre(s) titre(s):

Il cavaliere e la zarina (Italy) (alternative title)
Le chevalier er la Tzarine (France) (working title)
Secret of Chevalier D'Eon (International: English title)
Storie d'amore proibite (Italy)
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon (Belgium: French title) [fr]

Durée:

France:96 min

Pays:

Italy | France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

West Germany:18 | France:U

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Studios de Billancourt, Quai du Point du Jour, Boulogne-Billancourt, Ile-de-France, France

Company:

Gray-Film

Anecdotes:

Italian censorship visa # 30265 delivered on 18-9-1959.

Suffragette Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry was a female director at a time when only a few of them -Ida Lupino in the USA-dared tread on this male territory.And her movies -when one can see them - are really delightful.

This one takes liberties with history:the chevalier d' Eon was actually a man who used to dress up as a woman.Audry 's character is a woman,which is a courageous move:feminism and woman's lib before their time are here ,in spite of the conventional ending.Besides ,the screenplay predates Victor/Victoria by more than 30 years.Andrée Debar was a very strange actress,she's here more attractive when dressed up as a man than when she contents herself to be feminine.Her career was short-lived ,spanning about ten years,and it's her last movie.

A lot of humor ,of misunderstandings ,a lot of historical characters who are given a Sacha Guitry treatment,an ironical voice over, a lot of good humor.Louis XV,Madame de Pompadour (Jean Desailly and Simone Valere,husband and wife in life)and the tsarina of Russia ,all this live in a chocolate-box landscape.

The chevalier d'Eon briefly appears in Sacha Guitry's "si Versailles m'était conté" as well.Briefly but the sequence is a lot of fun.