My Brother from Senegal

1953 film by Guy Lacourt

  • Albert Mazaleyrat
  • Georges Sénamaud
StarringCinematography
  • Roger Dormoy
  • Marcel Weiss
Edited byMarcelle LioretMusic byNorbert Glanzberg
Production
company
Société Lyonnaise de Production de Films
Distributed bySofradis
Release date
  • 20 November 1953 (1953-11-20)
Running time
85 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

My Brother from Senegal (French: Mon frangin du Sénégal) is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Guy Lacourt and starring Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre and Noël Roquevert.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Boutié.

Synopsis

A young photographer is in love with the daughter of a nearby grocer. However she is obsessed with the adventurous heroes she watches in films. To impress her he decides to invent an identical twin recently returned from French Africa.

Cast

  • Raymond Bussières as Jules Pinson, photograph and son "double": César
  • Annette Poivre as Annette Bridoux, the daughter of the grocer
  • Noël Roquevert as Mr Bridoux, the grocer and father of Annette
  • Paulette Dubost as Séraphine, the maidservant of Mr Chaffinch
  • Paul Demange as the ancient colonial
  • Marcelle Arnold as Mrs Angèle
  • Sophie Sel as Mrs Sophie, the florist
  • Jacques Fabbri as the corporal of police station
  • Gisèle Grandpré as the lady who makes photograph her binoculars
  • Irène Bréor as the singer in the ball
  • Albert Michel as the state trooper of the circulation
  • Lud Germain as the hired black as clerk
  • Louis Viret as the mister who puts down posters
  • Eugène Stuber as an inhabitant beater
  • Franck Maurice as an inhabitant beater
  • Martine Beauvais as the lady to the small dog
  • Louis de Funès as the doctor

References

  1. ^ Vincendeau p.153

Bibliography

  • Ginette Vincendeau. Stars and Stardom in French Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.
  • My Brother from Senegal at IMDb
  • Mon frangin du Sénégal (1953) at the Films de France


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