Port Arthur (film)

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Port Arthur
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Directed by Nicolas Farkas
Written by Henri Decoin
Nicolas Farkas
Arnold Lippschitz
Steve Passeur
Emeric Pressburger
Hans Klaehr
Kurt Heuser
Based onPort Arthur by Pierre Frondaie
Produced by Pierre O'Connell
Starring Anton Walbrook
Danielle Darrieux
Charles Vanel
Cinematography Otto Heller
Georg Krause
Jaroslav Tuzar
Edited by Roger Mercanton
Carl Forcht
Music by Otakar Jeremiás
Production
companies
Société des Productions Cinématographiques F.C.L.
Tobis Film
Slavia
Distributed by Films Sonores Tobis
Release dates
  • 7 December 1936 (1936-12-07)(Germany)
  • 11 December 1936 (1936-12-11)(France)
Running time
83 minutes
CountriesFrance
Czechoslovakia
Germany
LanguagesFrench
Germany

Port Arthur (French: Port-Arthur) is a 1936 war drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and starring Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux and Charles Vanel. [1] It was a co-production between France, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Separate versions were produced in French and German, with Walbrook starring in both versions. The film was based on a novel of the same title by Pierre Frondaie. [2] It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Lochakoff, Stepán Kopecký and Vladimir Meingard. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin on 7 December 1936 and had its Paris opening four days later.

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Cast

French version

German version

Release

The film was shown in the United States at the Apollo Theater in October 1941. [3]

References

  1. Bessy & Chirat p.183
  2. Goble p.168
  3. Waldman 2008, p. 273.

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