Dark Sunday
{{short description|1948 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name =Dark Sunday
| image = Dark Sunday.jpg
| caption =
| director = Jacqueline Audry
| producer =Claude Dolbert
| based_on =
| writer = André Haguet
Pierre Laroche
André Legrand
| narrator =
| starring = Michèle Alfa
Paul Bernard
Marcelle Derrien
| music = Marcel Landowski
| cinematography = Gérard Perrin
| editing = Pierre Delannoy
| studio = Codo Cinema
| distributor = Selb Films
| released = {{Film date|1948|11|17|df=yes}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Dark Sunday (French: Sombre dimanche) is a 1948 French drama film directed by Jacqueline Audry and starring Michèle Alfa, Paul Bernard and Marcelle Derrien.Bessy & Chirat p.451 The film takes its name from the French title of the song "Gloomy Sunday".
The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Druart.
Synopsis
In pre-war France, a Hungarian immigrant musician is left so saddened when he is rejected by the woman he loves that he writes an incredibly gloomy piece of music. A music publisher is impressed with it and decides to promote using a marketing gimmick. He will get a woman to pretend to attempt suicide because she is so moved by the song.
Cast
- Michèle Alfa as Michèle
- Paul Bernard as Bob
- Jacques Dacqmine as Jan Laszlo
- Marcel Dalio as Max - l'éditeur
- Marcelle Derrien as Maria
- Colette Mars as Colette - une chanteurse
- Charles Lemontier as Le commissaire de police
- Edmond Ardisson as Le portier
- Alfred Baillou as Toni
- Jean Debray as Un journaliste
- Jean-Jacques Dreux as Roger
- Annette Lajon as Une chanteuse
- Palmyre Levasseur as La logeuse
- Julien Maffre as Un policier
- Renaud Mary as César
- Gilbert Moreau as Un photographe
- Georges Paulais as Le directeur
- Michel Seldow as Le brocanteur
- Sylvain as Un chanteur
- Roger Vincent as Un monsieur
- André Pasdoc as Un chanteur
References
Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950. Pygmalion, 1986
External links
- {{IMDb title|0202590}}
{{Jacqueline Audry}}
Category:1940s French-language films
Category:Films directed by Jacqueline Audry
Category:Films set in the 1930s
Category:Films scored by Marcel Landowski
Category:French-language drama films
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