Learning on ScreenAmants de Verone, Les
- Alternative title
- Lovers of Verona
- Synopsis
- Feature film. In modern Venice and Verona a film company is making Romeo and Juliet. The stand-ins for the lead roles are Angelo, a young glassblower and Georgia, the daughter of a former Fascist official. They feel their own lives are mirrored in the parts they see in the film production. Georgia’s malevolent fiance tries to get gangsters to murder Angelo, and when this fails persuades Georgia’s family to kill him. The lovers die together on Juliet’s tomb in the film studio.
- Language
- French (Standard)
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1949
- Notes
- The BFI National Archive, London holds two viewing copies; one nitrate with English subtitles (9,308ft, 103min) and a safety copy (102min) with no English subtitles.
Released on DVD in 2015 on Blu-ray with English subtitles. - Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Gangster films
Credits
- Director
- Andre Cayatte
- Producer
- Raymond Borderie
- Cinematographer
- Henri Alekan
- Screenplay
- Andre Cayatte; Jacques Prevert
- Music
- Joseph Kosma
- Cast
Anouk Aimee Dalio Louis Salou Pierre Brasseur Serge Regianni
Production Company
- Name
CICC
Archive
- Name
Archives Francaises du Film du Centre National De La Cinematographie (CNC)
- AFF@cnc.fr
- Web
- http://www.cnc/fr External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +33-1 3014 8000
- Address
- 7bis Rue A, Turpault, F-78395
Bois D’Arcy
France
- Name
BFI National Archive
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7436 0165
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Online Retailer
- Name
Amazon.fr
- Web
- http://www.amazon.fr External site opens in new window
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