It Happened in Aden

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It Happened in Aden
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Directed by Michel Boisrond
Written by Jean Aurel
Michel Boisrond
Constance Colline
Jacques Emmanuel
Based on The Environs of Aden
by Pierre Benoît
Produced bySimon Barstoff
Starring André Luguet
Jacques Dacqmine
Dany Robin
Cinematography Marcel Grignon
Edited by Claudine Bouché
Music by Georges Van Parys
Production
company
S.B. Films
Distributed by Cocinor
Release date
22 August 1956
Running time
88 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

It Happened in Aden (French: C'est arrivé à Aden...) is a 1956 French historical comedy film directed by Michel Boisrond and starring André Luguet, Jacques Dacqmine and Dany Robin. [1] It is based on the 1940 novel The Environs of Aden by Pierre Benoît.

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The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.

Synopsis

In the late nineteenth century, a French theatrical troupe become stranded in the British colony of Aden where the officers of the garrison woo the leading stars. One of them, Albine, attracts the interest of a local Prince there to sign a treaty with the British, leading to his kidnapping her.

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References

  1. Hayward p.399

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