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Love and Desire

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Love and Desire
Directed by
Written by
Based onLe désir et l'amour by Auguste Bailly
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichel Kelber
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
  • Lais S.A.
  • Société Générale de Cinématographie
Distributed byLes Films Marceau
Release date
  • 9 October 1951 (1951-10-09)
Running time
80 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Spain
LanguageFrench

Love and Desire (French: Le désir et l'amour) is a 1951 French-Spanish drama film directed by Henri Decoin and Luis María Delgado and starring Martine Carol, António Vilar and Carmen Sevilla.[1] It was based on the 1929 novel of the same title by Auguste Bailly.[2]

It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location in Madrid, Torremolinos and Malaga. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Julio Molina and René Renoux.

Synopsis

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A French film crew are working on location in southern Spain. When the leading man refuses to swim across a river, his place is taken by a local man who is soon hired as a stuntman for the whole film. Much to the anger of his Spanish fiancée, he falls in love with the film's female star.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bentley p.413
  2. ^ Goble p.735

Bibliography

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  • Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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