Figaro (film)

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Figaro
Directed byTony Lekain
Gaston Ravel
Written byBeaumarchais (play)
Tony Lekain
Gaston Ravel
StarringErnst Van Duren
Arlette Marchal
Marie Bell
CinematographyAlbert Duverger
Production
company
Franco Films
Release date
  • 20 December 1929 (1929-12-20)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesSilent
French intertitles
Figaro (1929)

Figaro is a 1929 French silent historical comedy film directed by Tony Lekain and Gaston Ravel and starring Ernst Van Duren, Arlette Marchal and Marie Bell.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels. It was released in 1929 in the US as a silent film, then reissued there in 1932 with an added music track, recorded by SpA Bixiophone, under the title Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Waldman & Slide p.71

Bibliography

  • Waldman, Harry & Slide, Anthony. Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995. Scarecrow Press, 1996.


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