Vertigo (1935 film)

Vertigo (French: Le vertige) is a 1935 French drama film directed by Paul Schiller and starring Alice Field, André Burgère and Jean Toulout.[1] It is based on a 1922 play of the same title by Charles Méré, which had previously been made into the 1926 silent film Le Vertige directed by Marcel L'Herbier.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. It was produced and distributed by the French subsidiary of Fox Film.

Vertigo
Directed byPaul Schiller
Written byPaul Fékété
René Guissart
Paul Schiller
Based onVertigo by Charles Méré
Produced byFred Bacos
StarringAlice Field
André Burgère
Jean Toulout
CinematographyAndré Dantan
Enzo Riccioni
Production
company
Distributed bySociété Anonyme Française Fox Film
Release date
21 February 1935
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Synopsis

Natacha Mikailovna married General Mikailoff after he shot and killed her lover during the Russian Civil War. Now White Russian émigrés living in Paris, she encounters a man who strangely resembles her dead former lover.

Cast

References

  1. Bessy & Chirat p.90
  2. Goble p.322

Bibliography

  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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