The Heart of a Nation

The Heart of a Nation (Untel père et fils)

Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Produced by	Paul Graetz
Written by	Julien Duvivier Marcel Achard Charles Spaak
Starring	Raimu Michèle Morgan Louis Jouvet
Music by	Jean Wiener
Cinematography	Jules Kruger
Edited by	Marthe Poncin
Production company	Transcontinental Films
Distributed by	A.F.E. Corporation (USA) Universal Film S.A. (France)
Release dates	7 April 1943 (1943-04-07) (U.S.) 9 October 1945 (1945-10-09) (France)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	2,145,108 admissions (France) (1945)^[1]

The Heart of a Nation (French: Untel père et fils) is a 1943 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier who co-wrote screenplay with Marcel Achard and Charles Spaak. The film stars Raimu, Michèle Morgan and Louis Jouvet.

Plot

Michèle Morgan

The film follows a family in Montmartre from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II.

An American release featured an introduction by Charles Boyer and scenes of the German entry into Paris.

Principal cast

Raimu as L'oncle Jules Froment
Michèle Morgan as Marie Froment-Léonard
Louis Jouvet as Pierre Froment / Félix Froment
Suzy Prim as Estelle Froment adulte
Renée Devillers as Gabrielle Froment
Louis Jourdan as Christian (uncredited)

Production

Louis Jourdan played the on screen brother of his real life brother, Pierre.^[2]

Filming started in late 1939 but was interrupted by the war.^[3]

Release

The film was released in New York before France.

On January 25, 2005, the American version of the film that is dubbed into English and features a prologue by Charles Boyer was released by Alpha Video on DVD .^[4]

References

↑ Box office for France in 1945 at Box Office Story
↑ Louis Jourdan biography accessed 23 Jan 2014
↑ The Heart of a Nation at Louisjourdan.net
↑ http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Nation-Raimu/dp/B0006SST9K

External links

The Heart of a Nation at Rotten Tomatoes
Untel père et fils at DvdToile
The Heart of a Nation at the Internet Movie Database
The Heart of a Nation at AllMovie
The Heart of a Nation at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database

Films directed by Julien Duvivier

Filmography

Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (1919) The Reincarnation of Serge Renaudie (1920) The Hurricane on the Mountain (1922) The Agony of the Eagles (1922) Les roquevillard (1922) The Reflection of Claude Mercœur (1923) L'oeuvre immortelle (1924) Coeurs farouches (1924) A Machine for Recreating Life (1924) Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes (1924) The Abbot Constantine (1925) The Red Head (1925) Le mystère de la tour Eiffel (1927) The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927) L'homme à l'Hispano (1927) L'agonie de Jérusalem (1927) The Maelstrom of Paris (1928) Mother Hummingbird (1929) The Divine Voyage (1929) La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930) Au bonheur des dames (1930) David Golder (1931) The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932) La Vénus du collège (1932) Here's Berlin (1932) The Red Head (1932) A Machine for Recreating Life (1933) A Man's Neck (1933) The Little King (1933) S.S. Tenacity (1934) Maria Chapdelaine (1935) Golgotha (1935) La Bandera (1935) The Golem (1936) They Were Five (1936) The Man of the Hour (1937) Pépé le Moko (1937) Life Dances On (1937) The Great Waltz (1938) The End of the Day (1939) The Phantom Carriage (1939) Lydia (1941) Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Heart of a Nation (1943) Flesh and Fantasy (1943) The Impostor (1944) Panique (1946) Anna Karenina (1948) Au royaume des cieux (1949) Black Jack (1950) Under the Paris Sky (1951) The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) Holiday for Henrietta (1952) The Return of Don Camillo (1953) L'affaire Maurizius (1954) Marianne of My Youth (1955) Deadlier Than the Male (1956) The Man in the Raincoat (1957) Pot-Bouille (1957) The Female (1959) Marie-Octobre (1959) The High Life (1960) Boulevard (1960) The Burning Court (1962) The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) Chair de poule (1963) Diabolically Yours (1967)

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