Miquette
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Miquette / Miquette et sa mère |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Boyer |
| script | Jean Boyer |
| production | Claude Dolbert |
| music |
Jane Bos Georges van Parys |
| camera | Marc Bujard |
| cut | Louisette Hautecoeur |
| occupation | |
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Miquette is a French drama directed by Jean Boyer in the first winter of World War I in 1939/40 with Lilian Harvey , who embodies the title role, in her last film. The story is based on the three-act play Miquette et sa mère (1906) by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet .
action
In a small French town around 1900. Here the young Miquette Grandier helps her mother to get a tobacco shop going. But her real wish is to appear at the theater and make a career there. The attractive woman is being courted by three men who couldn't be more different: There is the respected but also quite aged Marquis de la Tour Mirande, his curious nephew Urbain de la Tour Mirande and the also a little bit older, round Monsieur Monchablon, a touring theater actor who is retreating from the stage and who claims to have played every leading role. Miquette's great luck is that Monchablon is traveling through the small town with his guest stage right now.
In order to escape the tightness of the small towns and finally to sniff the stage air, Miquette Monchablon, who promises the realization of her theater dreams, follows to Paris. In the French capital, she meets the Marquis again. Madame Grandier, her mother, follows her at once, in great excitement and concerned about the well-being of her daughter abroad, and soon the Marquis-nephew Urbain de la Tour Mirande joins them. This constellation quickly leads to turbulent entanglements, including police operations, which ends with Miquette's marriage to Urbain in the idyllic rural homeland, while the marquis consoles himself with Madame Grandier. Monsieur Monchablon, however, remains the love of the stage and the memory of his big stage appearances.
Production notes
Shooting of Miquette , working title La demoiselle du tabac , began at the end of 1939; the premiere took place on May 1, 1940, just nine days before the start of the German invasion of France. The film was never shown in Germany.
As in her German films, Lilian Harvey also appears here as a singer. 18-year-old Daniel Gélin made his film debut here.
Web links
- Miquette in the Internet Movie Database (English)