Ignace (film) explained

Ignace
Director:	Pierre Colombier
Producer:	Ayres d'Aguiar
Starring:	Fernandel Fernand Charpin Alice Tissot
Music:	Roger Dumas
Cinematography:	Charles Bauer Robert Lefebvre
Editing:	André Versein
Studio:	Gray-Film
Distributor:	Gray-Film
Runtime:	102 minutes
Country:	France
Language:	French

Ignace is a 1937 French musical comedy film directed by Pierre Colombier and starring Fernandel, Fernand Charpin and Alice Tissot.^{[1] [2]} It was shot at the Joinville Studios of Pathé in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.

Synopsis

Ignace Boitaclou, a young peasant reservist, is called up for military duty. He is assigned as an orderly to the regimental colonel.

Cast

• Fernandel as Le soldat Ignace Boitaclou
• Fernand Charpin as Le colonel Romuald Durosier
• Saturnin Fabre as Le baron Gédéon des Orfrais
• Alice Tissot as La colonelle Gabrielle Durosier
• Nita Raya as Loulette
• Charles Redgie as Le capitaine Boisdelile
• Claude May as Monique Durosier
• Andrex as Serge de Montroc
• Dany Lorys as Annette - la bonne
• Raymond Cordy as Le soldat Philibert
• Pierre Magnier as L'inspecteur général
• Madeleine Suffel as La curiste
• Léonce Corne as L'adjudant

References

1. Brown p.35
2. Bessy & Chirat p.224

Bibliography

• Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
• Brown, Tom. Spectacle in Classical Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s. Routledge, 2015.
• Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.