Synopsis
The film is a trilogy wherein the episodes concern the problem of women in wars, and takes its examples from fifteen centuries of history. "Lysistrata" is a free adaptation from Aristophanes by Henri Jeanson. he shows how the lovely Athenian woman fights for peace in striking against her love. "Joan of Arc" evokes a little known phase of the set one month before capture of joan at Compiègne and marks, as delanoy relates, her passage from warrior to saint. The "modern episode" takes place in Italy at the end of the last war. A young American woman comes to visit her husband's tomb in a small Italian village. She finds there that, tracked by the Germans, her husband had been hidden for several months by the young woman who meets her, and that her child is by her dead husband.
Credits
Actors (27)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Franco-London Films
- Foreign production company : Continental Produzione
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Cinédis
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Henry Deutschmeister
- Adaptation : Henri Jeanson, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Jean Ferry, André-Paul Antoine, André Tabet, Ennio Flaiano, Sergio Amidei, Michel Audiard, Vladimir Pozner, Gian Luigi Rondi
- Screenwriters : Jean Ferry, Sergio Amidei
- Music Composer : Roman Vlad
- Assistant Director : Jean Delannoy
- Editors : James Cuenet, Jacques Desagneaux
- Sound recordists : Maurice Laroche, Antoine Petitjean, Vittorio Trentino
- Costume designer : Christian Dior
- Production Manager : Henri Baum
- Sound Editor : Vincent Lecoeur
- Production Designers : Jean D'Eaubonne, Alfredo Guarini, Serge Pimenoff, Ottavio Scotti
- Still Photographer : Raymond Voinquel
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Anthology film, Drama, Historical
- Themes : Femininity, War, History
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1953
- French release : 27/01/1954
- Runtime : 1 h 42 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 13391
- Visa issue date : 19/01/1954
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
Box-office & releases
TV broadcasting
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