The Model from Montparnasse

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Adieu Mascotte
The Model from Montparnasse.jpg
Directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Written by
Produced by Günther Stapenhorst
Starring
Cinematography Nikolai Toporkoff
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
2 August 1929
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Model from Montparnasse (German : Das Modell vom Montparnasse) or Adieu Mascotte is a 1929 German comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lilian Harvey, Igo Sym and Marietta Millner. [1] Originally made as a silent film, it later had synchronized sound added. It is set in the Demimonde of Paris with a heroine working as an artist's model.

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The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinz Fenchel and Jacek Rotmil. It was shot at the Babelsberg, Staaken and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place in Paris and Nice.

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References

  1. Prawer p. 89

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