Carnival in Flanders ( La Kermesse héroïque )

Carnival in Flanders (DVD) (*)

$32.99

Original Title: La Kermesse héroïque
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1935 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Jacques Feyder

Written By:
Charles Spaak
Bernard Zimmer

Actors:
Françoise Rosay ..... Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre / Madame Burgomaster
André Alerme ..... Korbus de Witte, le bourgmestre / The Burgomaster (as Alerme)
Jean Murat ..... Le duc d'Olivarès / The Duke
Louis Jouvet ..... Le chapelain / The Priest
Lyne Clevers ..... La poissonnière / The Fish-Wife (as Lynne Clevers)
Micheline Cheirel ..... Siska
Maryse Wendling ..... La boulangère / The Baker's Wife
Ginette Gaubert ..... L'aubergiste / The Inn-Keeper's Wife
Marguerite Ducouret ..... La femme du brasseur / The Brewer's Wife
Bernard Lancret ..... Julien Breughel
Alfred Adam ..... Josef Van Meulen, le boucher
Pierre Labry ..... L'aubergiste / The Inn-Keeper
Arthur Devère ..... Le poissonnier / The Fishmonger (as Arthur Devere)
Marcel Carpentier ..... Le boulanger / The Baker
Alexander D'Arcy ..... Le capitaine / The Captain (as Alexandre Darcy)

Synopsis:

Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

Satire set in the little Flemish town of Boom in 1616, during the twelve years truce between Flanders and Spain, about unexpected fraternisation between the Flemish and a visiting Spanish army.

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 December, 2008.

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