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Pasteur (film)
Pasteur is a 1935 French biographical drama film directed by Sacha Guitry and Fernand Rivers and starring Guitry, Maurice Schutz and Gaston Dubosc. It portrays the life of the French scientist Louis Pasteur.[1] Guitry had previous written a 1919 play about Pasteur, in which his father Lucien Guitry had starred.
| Pasteur | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sacha Guitry Fernand Rivers |
| Written by | Sacha Guitry |
| Produced by | Maurice Lehmann Fernand Rivers |
| Starring | Sacha Guitry Maurice Schutz Gaston Dubosc |
| Cinematography | Jean Bachelet |
| Edited by | Pierre Schwab |
| Music by | Louis Beydts |
Production companies | Productions Maurice Lehmann Les Films Fernand Rivers |
| Distributed by | Les Distributeurs Français |
Release date | 20 September 1935 |
Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. Location shooting took place at the Sorbonne in Paris and around Pasteur's hometown of Arbois in Eastern France.
Cast
- Sacha Guitry as Louis Pasteur
- Jean Périer as Le médecin
- José Squinquel as Roux, l'élève
- Maurice Schutz as Le grand-père
- Camille Beuve as Joseph Lister
- Gaston Dubosc as Le président de l'Acadèmie
- Louis Maurel as Jules Guérin
- Louis Gauthier as Un élève
- Armand Lurville as Un témoin
- Camille Cousin as Un témoin
- André Marnay as Un médecin
- François Rodon as Le petit Joseph Meister
- Henry Bonvallet as Sadi Carnot
References
- ^ Brown p.157
Bibliography
- Brown, Tom. Spectacle in Classical Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s. Routledge, 2015.
External links
- Pasteur at IMDb