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Narcisse (film)

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Narcisse
Directed byAyres d'Aguiar
Written byAnthony Kimmins
André Gillois
Karel Lamac
Produced byAyres d'Aguiar
StarringRellys
Paul Azaïs
Monique Rolland
CinematographyVictor Arménise
Paul Cotteret
Robert Juillard
Edited byAndré Versein
Music byRené Sylviano
Production
company
Gray-Film
Distributed byCocinor
Release date
  • 27 March 1940 (1940-03-27)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Narcisse is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Ayres d'Aguiar and starring Rellys, Paul Azaïs and Monique Rolland.[1] [2] [3] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and the Saint-Laurent-du-Var Studios in Nice. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It is a remake of the 1938 British film It's in the Air directed by Anthony Kimmins and re-used footage from the earlier film. It was produced during the Phoney War period and was released in March 1940, a few weeks before the beginning of the Battle of France.

Synopsis

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Narcisse Pigeon hopes to join the French Air Force, but fails the selection board. One day, at a friend's house, he tries on his uniform and discovering an overlooked urgent message in the pocket, he goes to deliver it to the base. He is mistaken for a serving airmen and quickly falls foul of the sergeant major, while also falling in love with the attractive canteen girl Rosine. He then accidentally ends up flying a new prototype plane, inadvertently performing a series of acrobatic manoeuvres in the air, before somehow managing to land it again.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.417
  2. ^ Rège p.5
  3. ^ https://www.unifrance.org/film/10030/narcisse

Bibliography

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  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1935–1939. Pygmalion, 1986
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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