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The Amorous Corporal

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Directed by
  
Robert Darène

Release date
  
1958 (1958)

Initial release
  
1958

Music director
  
Guy Magenta

3.9/10
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Music by
  
Guy Magenta

Language
  
French

Director
  
Robert Darène

Written by
  
Gabriel Arout Robert Darène

Starring
  
François Périer Rossana Podestà

Cast
  
Rossana Podestà, François Périer

Cinematography
  
Pierre Lhomme, Marcel Weiss

Similar
  
Goubbiah - mon amour, Le Coup de bambou, Last Plane to Baalbek, Temptation, The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue

The Amorous Corporal (French: La Bigorne, caporal de France) is a 1958 French adventure-comedy film co-written and directed by Robert Darène. Loosely based on the novel La Bigorne, caporal de France by Pierre Nord, it is set in eighteenth-century Madagascar.

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Cast

  • François Périer as La Bigorne
  • Rossana Podestà as Bethi
  • Robert Hirsch as Boisrose
  • Jean Lefebvre as Potirond
  • Jean Carmet as Balluché
  • Henri Cogan as Tom Wright

    • Reception

    The film has been widely criticized for its apologetic tones towards colonialism.

    References

    The Amorous Corporal Wikipedia
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