The Pretty Miller Girl

Not to be confused with The Beautiful Miller or The Miller's Beautiful Wife.
The Pretty Miller Girl
Directed byMarcel Pagnol
Written byMarcel Pagnol
StarringTino Rossi
Jacqueline Pagnol
Raoul Marco
CinematographyWilly Faktorovitch
Edited byJeanne Rongier [fr]
Music byTony Aubin
Production
company
Société du Film La Belle Meunière
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
  • 23 November 1949 (1949-11-23)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Pretty Miller Girl (French: La Belle Meunière) is a 1949 French musical film directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Tino Rossi, Jacqueline Pagnol and Raoul Marco. It is part of the tradition of operetta films. The title is a reference to Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.

Synopsis

Composer Franz Schubert goes to the countryside to find inspiration.[1][2][3] He meets a girl, Brigitte, near a windmill.[1][2] However, the local lord wants her as his lover.[2][3] Distraught, Schubert leaves and writes some new music to get over it.[2][3]

The film was shot with Rouxcolor technology.[4] The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.

Cast

References

  1. ^ a b AlloCine
  2. ^ a b c d UniFrance Films
  3. ^ a b c La Belle Meunière, Premiere,
  4. ^ Brett Bowles, Marcel Pagnol, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 4


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