Under Western Eyes (1936 film)

Under Western Eyes
Directed byMarc Allégret
Written byJoseph Conrad (novel) Hans Wilhelm
Jan Lustig [de]
Jacques Viot
Emeric Pressburger
Produced byAndré Daven
StarringPierre Fresnay
Danièle Parola
Michel Simon
CinematographyMichel Kelber
Edited byYvonne Martin
Marguerite Renoir
Music byGeorges Auric
Production
company
Productions André Daven
Distributed byLes Films Osso
L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date
  • 20 March 1936 (1936-03-20)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Under Western Eyes (French: Razumov: Sous les yeux d'occident) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola and Michel Simon.[1] It is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel Under Western Eyes. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Eugène Lourié.

Synopsis

In nineteenth century Russia a student with ambitions to join the Czarist system unwittingly become embroiled in the assassination of an Imperial official.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Moore p.21

Bibliography

  • Gene M. Moore. Conrad on Film. Cambridge University Press, 2006.


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