The Boarders at Saint-Cyr | |
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Directed by | Gennaro Righelli |
Written by |
Alessandro De Stefani Carlo Veneziani |
Based on | Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr by Alexandre Dumas |
Produced by | Giorgio Carini |
Starring |
Vanna Vanni Silvana Jachino Maurizio D'Ancora |
Cinematography | Domenico Scala |
Edited by | Gennaro Righelli |
Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
Production company | Mediterranea Film |
Distributed by | Consorzio Italiano Noleggiatori Filmi |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (Italian: Le educande di Saint-Cyr) is a 1939 Italian historical comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Vanna Vanni, Silvana Jachino and Maurizio D'Ancora. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1843 play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr by Alexandre Dumas. [2] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori.
In Napoleonic France two girls at a boarding school next door to the Saint-Cyr military academy in Paris are visited by a couple of cadets who climb over the wall to woo them. However they are discovered and in the ensuing scandal the Empress Josephine insists that they have to hastily get married. Napoleon himself intervenes, in sympathy to the two forces husbands, and sends them on an immediate mission to the Kingdom of Naples ruled by his own brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat. Abandoned on their wedding night the two young woman head to Italy in pursuit of their new husbands.
The Boarders at Saint-Cyr | |
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Directed by | Gennaro Righelli |
Written by |
Alessandro De Stefani Carlo Veneziani |
Based on | Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr by Alexandre Dumas |
Produced by | Giorgio Carini |
Starring |
Vanna Vanni Silvana Jachino Maurizio D'Ancora |
Cinematography | Domenico Scala |
Edited by | Gennaro Righelli |
Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
Production company | Mediterranea Film |
Distributed by | Consorzio Italiano Noleggiatori Filmi |
Release date |
|
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (Italian: Le educande di Saint-Cyr) is a 1939 Italian historical comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Vanna Vanni, Silvana Jachino and Maurizio D'Ancora. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1843 play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr by Alexandre Dumas. [2] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori.
In Napoleonic France two girls at a boarding school next door to the Saint-Cyr military academy in Paris are visited by a couple of cadets who climb over the wall to woo them. However they are discovered and in the ensuing scandal the Empress Josephine insists that they have to hastily get married. Napoleon himself intervenes, in sympathy to the two forces husbands, and sends them on an immediate mission to the Kingdom of Naples ruled by his own brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat. Abandoned on their wedding night the two young woman head to Italy in pursuit of their new husbands.