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Anglique, Marquise des Anges
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Wikipedia article
'Anglique, Marquise des Anges' is a 1964 historical romance film directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Michle Mercier, Robert Hossein and Jean Rochefort. It is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Anne and Serge Golon. It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany
It was shot at the Cinecitt Studios in Rome and the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location at the Chteau de Tanlay and Fontenay Abbey. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ren Moulaert.
The film was a major hit across Continental Europe, and in 1967 was distributed in Britain. It was followed by four sequels starting with 'Marvelous Angelique.Bergfelder p.261
Synopsis
In mid-17th century France, young Louis XIV is struggling for his throne, beggars and thieves haunt Paris and brigands roam the countryside. Fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman, Anglique de Sanc de Monteloup grows up in the Poitou marshlands. Her logical destiny would be to marry a poor country nobleman, have children and spend her life fighting for a meagre subsistence. Destiny has other plans in store for her. At 17, on returning from her education in a convent, she finds herself betrothed to the rich count Jeoffrey de Peyrac (Jeoffrey Comte de Peyrac de Morens, Lord of Toulouse), 12 years her senior, lame, scarred and reputed to be a wizard. For the sake of her family, Anglique reluctantly agrees to the match but refuses the advances of her husband. Peyrac respects her decision and does not pursue his claim to conjugal rights, wishing rather to seduce than use force.
With the passing of months, Anglique discovers the talents and virtues of her remarkable husband: scientist, musician, philosopher; and to her surprise falls passionately in love with him. But Jeoffrey's unusual way of life is threatened by the ambitions of the Archbishop of Toulouse, and soon arouses the jealousy of the young king himself, Louis XIV. Jeoffrey is arrested and charged with sorcery. Anglique will single-handedly take on the might of the royal court and, survive murder and poison attempts on herself in a supreme effort to save Jeoffrey from the stake, to no avail. Instinctively, her whole being intent on revenge and her determination to survive, Anglique, alone and desperate, plunges into the darkness of the Paris underworld.
Cast
* Michle Mercier as Anglique Sanc de Monteloup
* Robert Hossein as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
* Jean Rochefort as Franois Desgrez, solicitor
* Claude Giraud as Philippe de Plessis-Bellires
* Giuliano Gemma as Nicolas Merlot, the childhood friend of Anglique aka Calembredaine
* Jacques Toja as King Louis XIV
* Jacques Castelot as Archbishop of Toulouse
* Charles Regnier as Conan Bcher
* Bernard Woringer as Bernard d'Andijos
* Robert Porte as Monsieur brother of the king
* Madeleine Lebeau as la Grande Demoiselle
* Philippe Lemaire as De Vardes
* Franois Maistre as Prince de Cond
* Genevive Fontanel as Carmencita, a former mistress of Jeoffrey
* Jean Topart as Mr Bouri, the prosecutor
* Etchika Choureau as Hortense de Sanc, a sister of Anglique
* Jacques Mignot as Frre Raymond de Monteloup, a brother of Anglique
* Yves Barsacq as Le procureur Fallot
* Bernard Lajarrige as Baron Sanc de Monteloup, Anglique's father
* Jean Ozenne as Marquis de Plessis-Bellires
* Alexandre Rignault as Guillaume Ltzen
* Renate Ewert as Margot
* Pierre Hatet as Chevalier de Germontaz
* Robert Hoffmann as Chevalier de Lorraine
* Roberto as Barcarole
* Denise Provenceas Barbe
* Jacques Hilling as Mr Molines, notary
* Andr Rouyer as Clment Tonnelle
* Black Salem as Kouassiba, loyal servant of Jeoffrey
* Claude Vernier as President of the tribunal
* Rosalba Neri as La Polak
* Henri Cogan as Cul-de-Bois
* Serge Marquand as Jactance
* Monique Mlinand as Marquise de Plessis-Bellires
* Sylvie Coste: as friend of Carmencita
* Albert Dagnant as The Swiss fugitive
* Michal Munzer as Beau Garon
* Paula Dehelly as Anglique's governess
* Le chien Karlo as Sorbonne, Desgrez's dog.
* Claire Athana as Queen Marie-Thrse of Spain
* Georges Guret as Fritz Auer, alchemist
* Elisabeth Ercy as Rosine
* Patrick Lematre as Flipot
* Guido Alberti as Le grand Mathieu
* Jean-Pierre Castaldi as A courtier
;Voice dubbing:
* Jacques Thbault as French voice of Giuliano Gemma
* Rosy Varte as French voice of Rosalba Neri
* Michle Montel as French voice of Renate Ewert
Production
Michle Mercier recalled she had a clause added to her contract not to appear frontally naked on camera. "For the bath scene of the wedding night, I had put plaster on the point of my breasts and a plastic triangle at the bottom. Once in the water, panic, everything came off! I redid the scene. Me, a pharmacist's daughter, I know all about plasters!"-Mercier said.
Box office
In France, the film sold 2,958,684 tickets, making it one of the top ten highest-grossing films of 1964 in the country. It was also the second top-grossing film of the year in West Germany with ticket sales, and the year's fifth top-grossing film in Italy with ticket sales. In Spain, the film sold 211,941 tickets upon release in 1964.
In the Soviet Union, the film sold tickets upon release in 1969. It was the year's second highest-grossing foreign film in the Soviet Union (after the Indian Bollywood film 'Mamta'), and the 31st highest-grossing foreign film ever in the country. In Poland, it did very well, selling millions of tickets, making it one of thirteen high-grossing foreign films in the country in 1968. This adds up to a total of more than 60,212,625 tickets sold worldwide.
Anglique films
*1964 : 'Anglique, Marquise des Anges', director Bernard Borderie, starring Michle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
*1965 : 'Marvelous Angelique', director Bernard Borderie, starring Michle Mercier, Claude Giraud, Jean Rochefort
*1966 : 'Angelique and the King', director Bernard Borderie, starring Michle Mercier, Jean Rochefort
*1967 : 'Untamable Angelique', director Bernard Borderie, starring Michle Mercier, Robert Hossein
*1968 : 'Angelique and the Sultan', director Bernard Borderie, starring Michle Mercier, Robert Hossein
References
Bibliography
* Bergfelder, Tim. 'International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s'. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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