Le Duel
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Director (1)
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Full credits (10)
- Adaptation : Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Screenwriter : Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Directors of Photography : Christian Matras, Robert Juillard
- Music Composer : Maurice Yvain
- Editor : Bernard Séjourné
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Lebreton
- Author of original work : Henri Lavedan
- Producer : Raymond Borderie
- Production Manager : Paul Madeux
- Production Designer : Jean Bijon
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1939
- French release : 11/01/1941
- Runtime : 1 h 22 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 202
- Visa issue date : 31/08/1941
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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Le duel is Pierre Fresnay's only attempt at directing a movie.And considering the results,he was probably wise not to make another one.
Le duel is entertaining ,if it is not taken literally: it's an incredible melodrama ,probably the only one which features a confession,complete with act of contrition.
Pierre Fresnay liked parts of priests:he was admirable in Monsieur Vincent (by Maurice Cloche) which was a biography of Saint Vincent de Paul.As for the others...
Le défroqué (by Leo Joannon) was an extravaganza where a defrocked priest( Fresnay )made a young seminarian drink the consecrated wine after throwing up in the toilets!
Le duel is another extravaganza where Fresnay plays a priest who is still a man ,in spite of all he says to everyone around.He becomes the "spiritual adviser" of a deserted wife (Yvonne Printemps,Fresnay's wife in real life)whose husband ,an aviator , is a celebrity. Enter the priest's brother, a "heathen" surgeon who confesses his love to the woman (on the Eiffel tower!).But the holy man is not prepared to accept it even when the husband dies in a plane crash:he urges her to leave this world for higher "spiritual" concerns,that is to say to become a nun! Pierre Fresnay even casts Raimu (with whom he played opposite in Pagnol's famous trilogy César/Fanny/Marius) as another priest half missionary half guru (without his Provençal accent).
Source : IMDb
