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L'ETRANGE DESIR DE
MONSIEUR BARD
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L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard is a French film realized by Géza von Radványi, release in 1953.
♦ Synopsis :
Since always, Auguste Bard, driver of the coach Nice-Monte Carlo, was a subject of repulsion for its entourage. Its ugliness did not enable him to know the love. Cardiac and having only little time to live, it decides to take an early retirement and to have a child. Surrounded by a rough family to the profit, it gains twenty-five million with the casino and, accompanied by his faithful friend and Antonio colleague, it rents the services of a pretty Donata dancer, who deeply touched by her kindness, will give him a few months later, a superb boy. By learning the news, Bard will fall asleep of its last sleep, a happy smile with the lips.
♦ Specification sheet :
- Title : L'étrange désir de Monsieur Bard
- Realization : Géza von Radványi
- Scenario : Géza von Radványi
- Adaptation and Dialogue : René Barjavel and Géza von Radványi
- Production assistant : Marcel Camus
- Images : Léonce-Henri Burel
- Operator : Henri Raichi, assisted of Roger Tellier and Jean Charvein
- Music : Jean-Jacques Grünenwald
- Song : Car je t'aime of Henri Crolla (news editions Méridian)
- Decorations : Eugène Pierac
- Editing : René Le Hénaff, assisted of Augustine Richard and Jean Hamon
- Sound : Constantin Evangelou
- Perchman : Robert Cambouriakis
- Recorder : Louis Bertone
- Make-up : Louis Louc
- Photographer of tray : Sacha Masour
- Script-girl : Suzanne Durrenberger
- General manager : Eugène Nase, assisted of Charles Brandley
- Interior designer : Fernand Bernardi
- Shooting from February 16th till April 14th, 1953 in the studios of the Victorine in Nice
- Film 35mm, black and white
- Recording : Western Electric
- Edition : Laboratory G.T.C
- Production : General Union Cinematographic (UGC) (France)
- Leader of production : André Halley Des Fontaines
- Director of production : François Carron
- Distribution : A.G.D.C
- First presentation the January 1st, 1954
- Duration : 110 mn
- Genre : Drama
- Visa of exploitation : 13011
♦ Distribution :
- Louis de Funès : Mr Chanteau, the man in the « good ideas »
- Michel Simon : Auguste Bard, the driver of the bus Nice-Monte-Carlo
- Yves Deniaud : Antonio, the colleague and the friend of Auguste
- Geneviève Page : Donata Francescati, the dancer
- Henri Crémieux : Ernest, the grocer
- Georgette Anys : Julie, the grocer
- Henri Arius : The police captain
- Lucien Callamand : The solicitor
- Paul Frankeur : The priest
- Paul Demange : The nervous doctor
- Emma Lyonel : The manager
- Colette Ricard : Béatrice, the girl Julie and Ernest
- Jacques Erwin : The bailiff of the casino
- François Carron : The doctor of the maternity
- Maurice Benard : The director of the casino
- Yvonne Claudie : Caroline
- Félix Clément or Jean Clément : The first doctor
- Michel Gerbier : The little boy
- Claude Ermelli
- Colette Ravel
- Jacques Robin
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