Gibraltar (1938 film)

Summary

Gibraltar is a 1938 French spy film directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Viviane Romance, Roger Duchesne, Abel Jacquin and Erich von Stroheim.[1][2]

Gibraltar
Directed byFyodor Otsep
Written byErnst Neubach
Simon Gantillon
Jean Stelli
Erich von Stroheim
Jacques Companéez
Hans Jacoby
Produced byGregor Rabinovitch
André Paulvé
StarringRoger Duchesne
Viviane Romance
Erich von Stroheim
CinematographyJacques Mercanton
Theodore J. Pahle
Edited byGeorges Friedland
Music byPaul Dessau
Production
companies
Ciné-Alliance
DisCina
Gloria Film
La Magie du Cinéma
Distributed byDisCina
Release date
30 November 1938
Running time
105 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris, with location shooting taking place in Gibraltar itself despite the Spanish Civil War being fought across the border.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It was later remade in 1964 under the same title.

Synopsis edit

The plot concerns a British officer stationed in Gibraltar who goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hostile agents.

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See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "GIBRALTAR (1938)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  2. ^ Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen (2013). Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickson University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-61147-613-2.
  3. ^ Alberca p.133

Bibliography edit

  • Julio Ponce Alberca Gibraltar and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39: Local, National and International Perspectives. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

External links edit

  • Gibraltar at IMDb