Waltz of the Toreadors

Waltz of the Toreadors (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Guillermin

Written By:
Jean Anouilh (play)
Wolf Mankowitz

Actors:
Peter Sellers ..... Gen. Leo Fitzjohn
Dany Robin ..... Ghislaine
Margaret Leighton ..... Emily Fitzjohn
John Fraser ..... Lt. Robert Finch
Cyril Cusack ..... Dr. Grogan
Prunella Scales ..... Estella Fitzjohn
Denise Coffey ..... Sidonia
Jean Anderson ..... Agnes
Raymond Huntley ..... Ackroyd, Court President
Cardew Robinson ..... Midgley the Undertaker
John Glyn-Jones ..... Jenkins the Innkeeper
John Le Mesurier ..... Rev. Grimsley
Vanda Godsell ..... Mrs. Emma Bulstrode, Dress Shop Proprietor
Catherine Feller ..... Rosemary Fitzjohn

Synopsis:

Fitzjohn (Peter Sellers) is a retired general who is miserable at home with his shrewish wife Emily (Margaret Leighton). He dreams of younger days when he enjoyed the platonic company of the beautiful Ghislaine (Dany Robin). After many years, she shows up at his door and expresses her desire to take their relationship beyond the platonic level. When his plans are temporarily postponed, he leaves her in care of his right hand man. His aid and Ghislaine fall in love, prompting Fitzjohn to begin court-martial proceedings against his unfaithful aide. When the lineage of his aide is discovered, he tries to halt the trial in this ironic comedy taken from the play by Jean Anouilh.

This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do...

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 07 December, 2005.

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