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The Blue Danube (1940 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Blue Danube' (French: 'Le Danube bleu') is a 1940 drama film directed by Emil E. Reinert and Alfred Rode and starring Madeleine Sologne, Jos Noguro and Marguerite Moreno.Crisp p.415 The film's sets were designed by the art director mile Duquesne. Rode had produced a previous version of the film featuring Conchita Montenegro and Thomy Bourdelle but the negative of this was damaged during a March 1939 fire at the LTC laboratories in Paris and had to be re-shot with a different cast.
Synopsis
The attractive Anika is courted both by fellow gypsy Sandor and by the wealthy Fry. When the latter is found murdered, Sandor is chief suspect and its arrested. With the assistance of the fortune teller Maria, Anika sets out to find the truth about the matter.
Cast
* Madeleine Sologne as Anika
* Jos Noguro as Sandor
* Marguerite Moreno as Maria, la cartomancienne
* Jean Galland as Rakos
* Simone Hliard as Ilona
* Zita Fiore as Zita - La chanteuse
* Allain Dhurtal as Joska
* Raymond Segard as Fry
* Jean Tmerson as Alexander
* Alfred Rode as Imre
* Claude Roy as Le petit garon
References
Bibliography
* Crisp, Colin. 'Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939'. Indiana University Press, 2002.
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