The King's Jester
1941 film
- Victor Hugo (play)
- Tomaso Smith
- Carlo Salsa
- Mario Bonnard
- Michel Simon
- Michel Simon
- María Mercader
- Rossano Brazzi
- Doris Duranti
- Giuseppe Verdi (opera)
- Giulio Bonnard
Production
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Scalera Film
Release date
- 25 October 1941 (1941-10-25)
Running time
The King's Jester (Italian: Il re si diverte) is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Michel Simon, María Mercader and Rossano Brazzi. The film is an adaptation of the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo and uses music from Verdi's later opera Rigoletto.[1] It is set at the court of Francis I of France in the Sixteenth century.
Cast
- Michel Simon as Rigoletto
- María Mercader as Gilda
- Rossano Brazzi as Il re Francesco Iº
- Doris Duranti as Margot
- Paola Barbara as La duchessa di Cosse
- Elli Parvo as La zingara
- Carlo Ninchi as Il conte di Saint Vallier
- Juan de Landa as Sparafucile
- Loredana as Diana Di Saint Vallier
- Franco Coop as Il duca di Cosse
- Corrado Racca as Signor De Brion
- Giulio Battiferri as Uno dei rapitori di Gilda
- Oreste Bilancia as Un cortegiano
- Gildo Bocci as Il Gran Visir
- Ruggero Capodaglio as Un cortegiano
- Stanis Cappello as Un cortegiano
- Renato Chiantoni as Il terzo zingaro
- Gemma D'Alba as Signora De Pardaillan
- Alfredo De Antoni as Un cortegiano
- Liana Del Balzo as La marchesa che nasconde l'età
- Cesare Fantoni as Il sergente Roland
- Oreste Fares as Il servitore di Saint Vallier
- Adele Garavaglia as Costanza, la governante
- Fausto Guerzoni as Il primo zingaro
- Guido Morisi as Il duca De La Tour
- Giacomo Moschini as Signor De Pardaillan
- Giovanni Onorato as Il secondo zingaro
- Amina Pirani Maggi as Berarda, governante di Gilda
- Cesare Polesello as Il quarto zingaro
- Evaristo Signorini as Un cortegiano
- Aldo Silvani as Il boia
- Edda Soligo as Un'amica della duchessa di Cosse
- Edoardo Toniolo as Il poeta Marot
References
- ^ Fawkes p. 111
Bibliography
- Fawkes, Richard (2000). Opera on Film. London: Duckworth. ISBN 978-0-7156-2943-7.
- Klossner, Michael (2002). The Europe of 1500–1815 on Film and Television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-1223-5.
External links
- The King's Jester at IMDb
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Films directed by Mario Bonnard
- The Betrothed (1923)
- The Circus of Life (1926)
- The Golden Abyss (1927)
- The Sinner (1928)
- Theatre (1928)
- Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928)
- Call at Midnight (1929)
- The Call of the North (1929)
- The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
- Five to Nil (1932)
- No Women (1932)
- Three Lucky Fools (1933)
- The Missing Treaty (1933)
- The Wedding March (1934)
- Territorial Militia (1935)
- Adam's Tree (1936)
- Thirty Seconds of Love (1936)
- The Ferocious Saladin (1937)
- The Count of Brechard (1938)
- I, His Father (1939)
- Frenzy (1939)
- Father for a Night (1939)
- The King's Jester (1941)
- Marco Visconti (1941)
- Before the Postman (1942)
- Rossini (1942)
- The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
- Romulus and the Sabines (1945)
- What a Distinguished Family (1945)
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946)
- City of Pain (1948)
- Margaret of Cortona (1950)
- The Vow (1950)
- Stasera sciopero (1951)
- The Last Sentence (1951)
- Torment of the Past (1952)
- I figli non si vendono (1952)
- Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953)
- Concert of Intrigue (1954)
- They Stole a Tram (1954)
- La ladra (1955)
- Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
- Slave Women of Corinth (1958)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
- Gastone (1960)
- Rome 1585 (1961)
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