Stradivarius
Directed by
Written by
Produced bySiegfried Fritz Fromm
Starring
CinematographyWerner Brandes
Edited byHermann Haller
Music byAlois Melichar
Production
company
Boston Film
Distributed byFilms Sonores Tobis
Release date
  • 18 October 1935 (1935-10-18)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageFrench

Stradivarius is a 1935 drama film directed by Albert Valentin and Géza von Bolváry and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Edwige Feuillère, and Robert Arnoux.[1] It was made by Tobis Film as the French-language version of the film Stradivari.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.

Cast

Reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "the worst film to be seen in London". Greene's main complaint was the unrealistic and overacted effect of "sublimated sexuality" that the titular violin has on the listeners. Greene also criticized the acting of Bercher and Gauthier in the "dreadful hark-back to seventeenth-century Cremona" where Stradivari creates the violin.[2]

References

  1. Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl, p. 125.
  2. Greene, Graham (19 August 1937). "Slave-Ship/Stradivarius/Woman Chases Man". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
  • Passerini, Luisa; Labanyi, Jo; Diehl, Karen, eds. (2012). Europe and Love in Cinema. Bristol: Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-672-2.


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