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Hotel Free Exchange

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Hotel Free Exchange
Directed byMarc Allégret
Written byMarc Allégret
Jacques Prévert
Based onL'Hôtel du libre échange by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau
Produced byAlexandre Kamenka
StarringFernandel
André Alerme
Ginette Leclerc
CinematographyRoger Hubert
Edited byDenise Tual
Production
company
Or-Film
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 9 November 1934 (1934-11-09)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Hotel Free Exchange (French: L'hôtel du libre échange) is a 1934 French comedy film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Fernandel, André Alerme and Ginette Leclerc.[1] It is based on the 1894 play of the same title by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau, later remade as the 1966 British film Hotel Paradiso.[2] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lazare Meerson.

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References

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  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.497
  2. ^ Goble p.196

Bibliography

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  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934. Pygmalion, 1988.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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