The Adventures of Gil Blas

The Adventures of Gil Blas (French: Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane, Spanish: Una aventura de Gil Blas) is a 1956 French–Spanish adventure film directed by René Jolivet and Ricardo Muñoz Suay and starring Georges Marchal, Barbara Laage and Susana Canales.[1] It is based on the eighteenth century novel Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.

The Adventures of Gil Blas
Spanish poster
Directed byRené Jolivet
Ricardo Muñoz Suay
Written byJesús María de Arozamena
René Jolivet
Based onGil Blas by Alain-René Lesage
Produced byBenito Perojo
Jean Lefait
Raymond Logeart
StarringGeorges Marchal
Barbara Laage
Susana Canales
CinematographyAntonio L. Ballesteros
Roger Fellous
Edited byAndré Gaudier
Antonio Ramírez de Loaysa
Music byAugusto Algueró
Daniel Lesur
Production
companies
Vascos Films
Producciones Benito Perojo
Distributed byLes Films Fernand Rivers
CEA Distribución
Release date
6 April 1956
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesFrance
Spain
LanguageFrench

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Sigfrido Burmann and René Hubert.

Cast

References

  1. Goble p.678

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.

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