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1949 film
Du Guesclin
Directed byBernard de Latour
Written byBernard de Latour
Based onDu Guesclin by Roger Vercel
Produced byAndré Paulvé
Edouard Lepage
StarringFernand Gravey
Junie Astor
Ketti Gallian
CinematographyNicolas Toporkoff
Edited byMaurice Serein
Music byMaurice Thiriet
Production
company		Les Films du Verseau
Distributed byDisCina
Release date
  • 3 June 1949 (1949-06-03)
Running time87 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Du Guesclin is a 1949 French historical adventure film directed by Bernard de Latour and starring Fernand Gravey, Junie Astor and Ketti Gallian. The film is a biopic about Bertrand du Guesclin, a baron, Constable of France, and high-ranked officer in the French Army of the 14th Century, who fights in the Hundred Years' War. It is based on the novel Du Guesclin by Roger Vercel. It was filmed at Marseille Studios and on location at the Château de Dinan in Brittany. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss.

Cast

References

  1. "Du Guesclin de Bernard de Latour, Pierre Billon (1949) - Unifrance".
  2. Vincendeau p.152
  3. Hart, Kevin J. The Reel Middle Ages : American, western and eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian films about medieval Europe. Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2006 ISBN 9780786426577 (p.288).

Bibliography

  • Vincendeau, Ginette . Stars and Stardom in French Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.

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