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16/1 - |
Marcel Pagnol's Manon des sources, starring Jacqueline Pagnol, Rellys and Henri Poupon is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Jacques Tati’s Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday), which took over a year to shoot, is released. The bumbling Hulot is based on a sergeant Tati knew in the army. [MORE] [ADD] |
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13/3 - |
Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin finally goes on release in Paris. The twenty-eight-year-old film had previously been banned on political grounds. [MORE] [ADD] |
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24/3 - |
Orson Welles appears before the Board of Arbitration to answer claims from set designer Alexandre Trauner that he is owed 2 million francs for work carried out on the sets of Welles’ Othello. [MORE] [ADD] |
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22/4 - |
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s tense thriller Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) is released. Based on a novel by Georges Arnaud, the film stars Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck and Folco Lulli as a band of adventurers transporting a cargo of nitro-glycerine 300 miles. [MORE] [ADD] |
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1/7 - |
French-born Claudette Colbert arrives in France to begin filming Sacha Guitry’s Si Versailles m'etait conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles). [MORE] [ADD] |
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14/7 - |
Abel Gance films the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris using his Polyvision multiple-image process and stereophonic sound. Argentinean journalist Nelly Kaplan assists. [MORE] [ADD] |
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France 1953 - Other Films of Note |
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La Bergère et le ramoneur (Paul Grimault, Pierre Grimault) [MORE] [ADD] |
