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Director
  
Marc Allegret

Production design
  
Pierre Guffroy

Duration
  

Language
  
French

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Genre
  
Drama

Country
  
France

The Ball of Count Orgel movie poster

Cast
  
Jean-Claude Brialy
,
Sylvie Fennec
,
Bruno Garcin
,
Micheline Presle
,
Gérard Lartigau
,
Sacha Pitoëff

Release date
  
1 July 1970

Writer
  
Raymond Radiguet (novel), Marc Allegret (screenplay), Philippe Grumbach (screenplay), Francoise Sagan (dialogue), Philippe Grumbach (dialogue)

Directors
  
Marc Allegret, Yves Allegret

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The Ball of Count Orgel (French: Le Bal du comte d'Orgel) is a French film from 1970. It was the last film directed by Marc Allégret, who was also the producer of this film. It was screened at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.

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Plot

Based on Raymond Radiguet's book of the same name, posthumously published in 1924, the film concerns a ball hosted by the Comte d'Orgel (English: Count of Orgel).

Set in 1920, the Comte hosts a soirée and dance for the upper echelons of Parisian society. One of the guests is a handsome young man named François de Séryeuse (played by Bruno Garcin), who during the course of the ball falls in love with the Comte's wife, Comtesse Mahé (played by Sylvie Fennec).

The Comtesse alerts her husband (the Comte), but he dismisses it, seeing de Séryeuse as childish and common. However, Mahé falls for François, and faints with passion on stage during a performance of The Tempest with François. Mahé continues to dream about him, however she is confined in her marriage.

Cast

  • Jean-Claude Brialy : Le comte Anne d'Orgel (English: Count Anne of Orgel)
  • Sylvie Fennec : La comtesse Mahé d'Orgel (English: Countess Mahé of Orgel)
  • Bruno Garcin : François de Seyrieuse
  • Micheline Presle : Madame de Seyrieuse (English: Mrs. de Seyrieuse)
  • Gérard Lartigau : Paul Robin
  • Sacha Pitoëff : Le prince Naoumof (English: Prince Naoumof)
  • Marpessa Dawn : Marie
  • Claude Gensac : Mademoiselle d'Orgel (English: Orgel's daughter)
  • Ginette Leclerc : Hortense d'Austerlitz (English: Hortense of Austerlitz)
  • Aly Raffy : Mirza
  • Marcel Charvey : L'ambassadeur (English: The Ambassador)
  • Béatrice Chatelier : Amina
  • Max Montavon : Un invité (English: A guest)
  • Wendy Nicholls : Hester

    • References

    The Ball of Count Orgel Wikipedia
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    The Ball of Count Orgel IMDb The Ball of Count Orgel themoviedb.org