Topaze (1933)

Directed by

Louis J. Gasnier, Marcel Pagnol

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A naive schoolteacher gets exploited by corrupt businessmen and learns to play their game. The comedy follows his gradual transformation from an honest fool into a cunning opportunist.

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What happens

Topaze is a 1933 French comedy film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Louis Jouvet, Simone Héliard and Marcel Vallée. It is based on the 1928 play Topaze by Marcel Pagnol. The same year, an American version of the play Topaze was released, starring John Barrymore. In 1936, Pagnol himself remade the film in France. It was made at the Joinville Studios in Paris by the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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