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Director:
Mauro Bolognini
Writers:
Alexandre Dumas fils (novel)
Jean Aurenche (story) ...
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Release Date:
11 March 1981 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Awards:
4 wins more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Isabelle Huppert ... Alphonsine Plessis
Gian Maria Volontè ... Plessis
Bruno Ganz ... Count Perregaux
Fabrizio Bentivoglio ... Dumas son
Clio Goldsmith ... Clemence
Mario Maranzana ... Dumas father
Yann Babilée ... Agenor
Carla Fracci ... Marguerite Gauthier
Cécile Vassort ... Henriette
David Jalil ... Maxence
Piero Vida
Fabio Traversa ... Priest
Remo Remotti
Mattia Sbragia
Clara Colosimo
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Die Kameliendame (West Germany)
La dame aux camélias (France)
Lady of the Camelias (International: English title)
The True Story of Camille
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Runtime:
115 min
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Version of Camille (1915/I) more
Soundtrack:
Petite Créature more

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2 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Blurb., 5 December 2001
Author: Gerald A. DeLuca (italiangerry@gmail.com) from United States

Mauro Bolognini's THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS is a French-Italian co-production. It gives us the "true" demystified story of one of French literature's most famous courtesans and who was the basis of many later variations including Verdi's Violetta in LA TRAVIATA and Greta Garbo's Camille. The premise is excellent, by the execution is marred by the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the title role. She seems just too scant and passive to be the self-sacrificing femme-fatale she is supposed to be portraying. And although the settings and decor are nothing short of superb (always dependable in Bolognini's films like THE INHERITANCE and LA GRANDE BOURGEOISE), little is gained by the constant clinical insistence on Alphonsine's genuine sickness (she is constantly coughing up blood for our edification) and by the unconvincing delineation of her relationships with her suitors. The film is very much worth seeing if for no other reason than to compare it with other better versions of the story, perhaps the Zeffirelli film version of the opera, with Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo.

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