Du Guesclin (film) explained

Du Guesclin
Director:Bernard de Latour
Producer:André Paulvé
Edouard Lepage
Starring:Fernand Gravey
Junie Astor
Ketti Gallian
Music:Maurice Thiriet
Cinematography:Nicolas Toporkoff
Editing:Maurice Serein
Studio:Les Films du Verseau
Distributor:DisCina
Runtime:87 minutes
Country:France
Language:French

Du Guesclin is a 1949 French historical adventure film directed by Bernard de Latour and starring Fernand Gravey, Junie Astor and Ketti Gallian.[1] [2] 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.[3] 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.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.unifrance.org/film/5234/du-guesclin
  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 (p.288).