Entente cordiale (film)
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Entente cordiale is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gaby Morlay, Victor Francen and Pierre Richard-Willm.[2] The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
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Directed by | Marcel L'Herbier |
Written by | André Maurois (book) |
Produced by | Max Glass Bernard Natan |
Starring | Gaby Morlay Victor Francen Pierre Richard-Willm |
Cinematography | Marc Fossard Theodore J. Pahle |
Edited by | Raymond Leboursier |
Music by | Roger Bernstein Marcel Lattès |
Distributed by | Comptoir Français du Film (CFF) |
Release date | 3 April 1939[1] |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |