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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 AroutRobert Darène

Starring
  
François PérierRossana 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
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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