Stradivarius (film)

Stradivarius
Stradivarius
Directed by	Albert Valentin; Géza von Bolváry;
Written by	Jacques Bousquet; Ernst Marischka;
Produced by	Siegfried Fritz Fromm
Starring	Pierre Richard-Willm; Edwige Feuillère; Robert Arnoux;
Cinematography	Werner Brandes
Edited by	Hermann Haller
Music by	Alois Melichar
Production; company	Boston Film
Distributed by	Films Sonores Tobis
Release date	18 October 1935;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	French

Stradivarius is a 1935 drama film directed by Albert Valentin and Géza von Bolváry and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Edwige Feuillère, and Robert Arnoux.^[1] It was made by Tobis Film as the French-language version of the film Stradivari.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.

Cast

Pierre Richard-Willm as Sándor Teleky
Edwige Feuillère as Maria Belloni
Robert Arnoux as Imre Berczy
Evelyne May as Irène Kardos
Jean Galland as Dr. Pietro Rossi
Jean Toulout as Professor Hoefer
Fernand Bercher [de] as Antonio Stradivari
Louis Gauthier [fr] as Nicolo Amati
Jacques Erwin as Officier
Marcella Albani
Paul Amiot
Junie Astor
Litta Cléry as Une infirmière
Blanche Denège
Victor Vina

Reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "the worst film to be seen in London". Greene's main complaint was the unrealistic and overacted effect of "sublimated sexuality" that the titular violin has on the listeners. Greene also criticized the acting of Bercher and Gauthier in the "dreadful hark-back to seventeenth-century Cremona" where Stradivari creates the violin.^[2]

References

^ Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl, p. 125.
^ Greene, Graham (19 August 1937). "Slave-Ship/Stradivarius/Woman Chases Man". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
Passerini, Luisa; Labanyi, Jo; Diehl, Karen, eds. (2012). Europe and Love in Cinema. Bristol: Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-672-2.

External links

Stradivarius at IMDb

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[FOOTNOTEPasseriniLabanyiDiehl125-1] Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl, p. 125.

[2] Greene, Graham (19 August 1937). "Slave-Ship/Stradivarius/Woman Chases Man". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 0192812866.)

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