The Princess's Whim (French: Caprice de princesse) is a 1934 French-German comedy film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Karl Hartl and starring Marie Bell, Albert Préjean and Armand Bernard.[1] [2] It was produced as the French-language version of the 1933 German film Her Highness the Saleswoman and distributed by L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne, the French subsidiary of UFA. It is based on the play My Sister and I by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil.[3] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting.

The Princess's Whim
Directed byHenri-Georges Clouzot
Karl Hartl
Written byHenri-Georges Clouzot
Karl Hartl
Irma von Cube
Louis Verneuil
Based onMy Sister and I by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil
Produced byArnold Pressburger
Gregor Rabinovitch
StarringMarie Bell
Albert Préjean
Armand Bernard
CinematographyFranz Planer
Edited byRené Métain
Music byRalph Benatzky
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
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Distributed byL'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date
  • 16 January 1934 (1934-01-16)
Running time
85 minutes
CountriesFrance
Germany
LanguageFrench

Synopis

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Princess Isabelle falls in love with André, a literary historian in charge of her family's library, but he is not interested due to her grandiose manner. He seeks a woman from a more simple background. Isabelle then passes herself off as a financially struggling younger sister Irène, who worked as a salesgirl, in order to win him over.

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References

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  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.185
  2. ^ Alpi p.71
  3. ^ Goble p.39

Bibliography

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  • Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works. McFarland, 1998.
  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Lloyd, Christopher. Henri-Georges Clouzot. Manchester University Press, 2007.
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