The Man from Niger

The Man from Niger or Forbidden Love (French: L'homme du Niger) is a 1940 French drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Victor Francen, Jacques Dumesnil and Annie Ducaux. It is set in the French colonial empire.[1]

The Man from Niger
Directed byJacques de Baroncelli
Written byAlbert Dieudonné
Joseph Kessel
André Legrand
Jean Paillard (books)
StarringVictor Francen
Jacques Dumesnil
Annie Ducaux
Music byHenri Tomasi
CinematographyLéonce-Henri Burel
Edited byJean Sacha
Production
company
SPFLH
Distributed byLes Films Bodalo
Release date
27 January 1940
Running time
102 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne and Robert Gys. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location in Mali, then known as French Sudan.

Main cast

References

  1. Kennedy-Karpat p.179

Bibliography

  • Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.


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