Michel Strogoff (1936 film)

Michel Strogoff
Directed by	Jacques de Baroncelli Richard Eichberg
Written by	Jules Verne (novel) Jean Bernard-Luc Hans Kyser Jacques Natanson T.H. Robert
Produced by	Joseph N. Ermolieff
Starring	Anton Walbrook Colette Darfeuil Armand Bernard
Cinematography	Ewald Daub A.O. Weitzenberg
Edited by	Jean Delannoy
Music by	Hans Sommer
Production company	Les Productions Ermolieff
Distributed by	Films Sonores Tobis
Release date	10 March 1936
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Michel Strogoff is a 1936 French historical adventure film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and Richard Eichberg and starring Anton Walbrook, Colette Darfeuil and Armand Bernard. It is an adaptation of the 1876 novel Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne. A separate German version The Czar's Courier was also made.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Lochakoff. It was made by the French subsidiary of Tobis Film and shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place mainly in Bulgaria and at the Johannisthal Air Field.

Cast

• Anton Walbrook as Michel Strogoff
• Colette Darfeuil as Sangarre
• Armand Bernard as Harry Blount
• Charles Vanel as Ivan Ogareff
• Yvette Lebon as Nadia Fédor
• Marcelle Worms as Marfa
• Fernand Charpin as Alcide Jolivet
• Victor Vina as Le tsar
• Camille Bert as Le grand-duc
• Bernhard Goetzke as Feofar Khan
• René Stern as Le général Kirsanoff
• Bill Bocket as Wassily

See also

• The Soldier and the Lady (1937)

Bibliography

• Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Michel Strogoff at IMDb