Serenade (1940 film)

Serenade
Directed by	Jean Boyer
Written by	Ernst Neubach Pierre Wolff Jacques Companéez Max Maret
Produced by	Robert Tarcali
Starring	Lilian Harvey Louis Jouvet Bernard Lancret Félix Oudart
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman Maurice Pecqueux Claude Renoir
Edited by	Louisette Hautecoeur Marc Sorkin
Music by	Paul Abraham
Production company	Tarcali-Films
Distributed by	Astra Paris Films
Release date	28 February 1940 (1940-02-28)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Serenade or Schubert's Serenade (French: Sérénade) is a 1940 French historical film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilian Harvey, Louis Jouvet and Bernard Lancret. It portrays a fictional romance between the Austrian composer Franz Schubert and an English dancer. The film was the first of two the Anglo-German actress Lillian Harvey made in France, after leaving Nazi Germany.

Cast

• Lilian Harvey as Margaret Brenton
• Louis Jouvet as Baron Hartmann
• Bernard Lancret as Franz Schubert
• Félix Oudart as Schwindt the director
• Roger Bourdin as Vogl
• Marcel Lupovici as a friend of Schubert
• Auguste Bovério as Beethoven
• Marcel Vallée as Hostlinger the editeur
• Alexandre Rignault as the policeman
• Pierre Magnier as Prince Klemens von Metternich
• René Stern as an elegant man
• Madeleine Suffel as Anny
• Claire Gérard as the owner
• Marthe Mellot as the saleswoman
• Georges Bever as Le commis
• Jacques Butin as the secretary
• Edmond Castel as L'aubergiste
• Philippe Richard as Le prieur
• Robert Arnoux as Chavert
• Henri Richard as a diplomat

Bibliography

• Ascheid, Antje (2010). Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-843-2.
• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• Serenade at IMDb