The Mondesir Heir

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The Mondesir Heir
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Directed by Albert Valentin
Written by Jean Aurenche
Lucien Guidice
Pierre Bost
Produced by Raoul Ploquin
Dietrich von Theobald
Starring Fernandel
Elvire Popesco
Jules Berry
Cinematography Ekkehard Kyrath
Edited by Henri Taverna
Music by Georges Van Parys
Production
companies
L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
UFA
Distributed byL'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date
  • 1 May 1940 (1940-05-01)
Running time
102 minutes
CountriesFrance
Germany
LanguageFrench

The Mondesir Heir (French: L'héritier des Mondésir) is a 1940 French-German comedy film directed by Albert Valentin and starring Fernandel, Elvire Popesco and Jules Berry. It was shot in Berlin by the German studio UFA in a co-production arrangement with its own French subsidiary ACE. Made before the Second World War broke out, it was the last of twenty one such productions. [1]

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  1. Fiss p.136

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