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A Man Has Been Stolen
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Wikipedia article
'A Man Has Been Stolen' (French: 'On a vol un homme') is a 1934 French comedy thriller film directed by Max Ophls and starring Lili Damita, Henri Garat and Raoul Marco.Hardt p.142
It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Heilbronner. The film was produced by Erich Pommer, recently escaped from Nazi-controlled GermanyHardt p.138-39, for the European subsidiary of Fox Film. Many of the filmmakers employed were refugees from Nazi Germany.
Pommer also produced another film simultaneously 'Liliom', a romance film directed by Fritz Lang. Ophls later suggested that he felt that the two directors had each been assigned to the wrong production "had we exchanged the films Lang most likely would have made an extraordinary mystery and I a very good romantic comedy".Hardt p.142-43 Neither film was very successful at the box office.Williams p.211 It is a lost film.
Synopsis
A millionaire is kidnapped, but begins to fall in love with the woman keeping him prisoner.
Cast
* Lili Damita as Annette
* Henri Garat as Jean de Lafaye
* Raoul Marco as Inspector
* Charles Fallot as Victor
* Lucien Callamand as Legros
* Nina Myral as Old Woman
* Pierre Labry as Balafre
* Fernand Fabre as Robert
* Robert Goupil as Legros
* Pierre Pirade as Remy
* Guy Rapp
* Andr Simon
References
Bibliography
* Hardt, Ursula. 'From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars'. Berghahn Books, 1996.
* Williams, Alan L. 'Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking'. Harvard University Press, 1992.
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