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Misdeal (1928)

Maldone (original title)
| Drama | 14 September 1928 (France)
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Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother ... See full summary »

Director:

Jean Grémillon

Writer:

Alexandre Arnoux

Stars:

Charles Dullin, Marcelle Charles Dullin, Geymond Vital | See full cast & crew »
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Charles Dullin Charles Dullin ... Olivier Maldone
Marcelle Charles Dullin Marcelle Charles Dullin ... Missia, la voyante (as Marcelle Dullin)
Geymond Vital ... Marcellin Maldone
André Bacqué André Bacqué ... Juste Maldone, l'oncle
George Seroff George Seroff ... Léonard, le serviteur
Annabella ... Flora Lévigné
Roger Karl ... Lévigné père
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Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening. Written by Will Gilbert

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Country:

France

Release Date:

14 September 1928 (France) See more »

Also Known As:

Misdeal See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

La Société des Films Charles Dullin See more »
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Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1
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Free as a butterfly.
25 October 2004 | by dbdumonteil – See all my reviews

The hero releases the butterflies captive in a jar,and when he writes his farewell letter,he's in front of a collection of these lepidoptera.

This can summarize the movie quite well.The hero ,although a valuable property's heir was born to start out and to lead a wanderer's life.For him,what the others would call "happiness" -that is to say money,a wife -is an imitation of life ,something unbearable.This silent movie is full of contrasts:the flat land near the Briare canal and the mountains which imprison the hero (as the servant says while searching his master:in the mountains,we can have landmarks;the gypsy girl Zita and the straight landlord's daughter ;the popular dance (accordion music ,what the French call "musette") and the chic ball in the casino.It's not a pure coincidence that the hero calls himself "Maldone".It's a homonym of the word "maldonne" which means "misdeal".

The movie was restored by the cinematheque française with good results for the pictures are splendid.The ball scenes are masterfully filmed and predates the extraordinary finale of "pattes blanches" which Gremillon will direct twenty years later.Main character is played by Charles Dullin ,who was essentially a stage actor(famous for his parts in Moliere comedies:"L'avare" and "Tartuffe").Annabella ,who plays his wife -and who was once Tyrone Power's wife- ,is nothing more than a walk on here.
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