People Who Travel | |
Director: | Jacques Feyder |
Cinematography: | Josef Illig Franz Koch |
Editing: | Roger Spiri-Mercaton |
Studio: | Tobis Film |
Distributor: | Tobis Film |
Runtime: | 108 minutes |
Country: | France Germany |
Language: | French |
People Who Travel (French: Les Gens du voyage) is a 1938 French-German film directed by Jacques Feyder. The film was a co-production with a separate German version Travelling People also released. It is a circus film.
It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean D'Eaubonne.
Due to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay. The son of Flora (and Fernand), Marcel, does the acrobatics with the manager's daughters, Suzanne and Yvonne. In love with the latter, Suzanne becomes jealous. Squire Pepita is also interested in the young man.
La dompteuse Flora
Fernand
Pepita
Yvonne Barlay
Suzanne Barlay
Le lieutenant de gendarmerie
Le bonimenteur
Jo
Laëtitia
le médecin (not credited)
Tragedy - Black and white - 121 mn
See main article: Travelling People (film). As was common at the time, the film was also filmed at studios in Munich in an alternative version, French and German, the technical team and stars being more or less different in each version.
Only Françoise Rosay kept her role as Flora in the German version, while other stars were: Hans Albers (Fernand), Camilla Horn (Pepita), Herbert Hübner (Edouard Barlay), Irene von Meyendorff (Yvonne Barlay), Ulla Ganglitz (Suzanne Barlay), Hannes Stelzer (Marcel), Aribert Mog (Le lieutenant).
Françoise Rosay refused to have a stunt double in scenes in which she was confronted by lions (cited by Jacques Siclier in Télérama in 1992).