Carnival in Flanders
Synopsis
In 1616, when Flanders is under Spanish occupation, the town of Boom, in the midst of preparations for its carnival, learns that a Spanish duke with his army is on the way to spend the night there.
Fearing that this will inevitably result in rape and pillage, the mayor — supported by his town council — has the idea of pretending to be newly dead, in order to avoid receiving the soldiers. But his redoubtable wife Cornelia despises this strategem and organises the other women to prepare hospitality and to adapt their carnival entertainments for the Spaniards (who insist on entering the town anyway).
Such is the warmth of the women’s welcome that not only do the Spaniards refrain from misbehaviour, but on their departure the Duke announces a year’s remission of taxes for the town.
Cornelia allows her husband to take the credit for their good fortune, but she has in the meantime thwarted his plans for their daughter to marry the town butcher instead of the young painter Brueghel whom she loves.
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Director (1)
Actors (24)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Films Sonores Tobis
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Filmsonor Marceau
Full credits (13)
- Screenwriters : Charles Spaak, Robert A. Stemmle, Jacques Feyder
- Dialogue Writer : Bernard Zimmer
- Director of Photography : Harry Stradling
- Music Composer : Louis Beydts
- Assistant directors : Marcel Carné, Charles Barrois
- Editor : Jacques Brillouin
- Sound Recordist : Hermann Storr
- Costume designer : Georges K. Benda
- Author of original work : Charles Spaak
- Assistant Operator : André Thomas
- Camera Operator : Louis Page
- Production Manager : Pierre Guerlais
- Production Designers : Lazare Meerson, Alexandre Trauner, Georges Wakhevitch
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Historical
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 1935
- French release : 03/12/1935
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 1814
- Visa issue date : 31/08/1940
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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