Stradivarius (film)

Stradivarius is a 1935 drama film directed by Albert Valentin and Géza von Bolváry and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Edwige Feuillère, and Robert Arnoux.^[1] It was made by Tobis Film as the French-language version of the film Stradivari.

Stradivarius
Directed by	Albert Valentin Géza von Bolváry
Written by	Jacques Bousquet Ernst Marischka
Produced by	Siegfried Fritz Fromm
Starring	Pierre Richard-Willm Edwige Feuillère Robert Arnoux
Cinematography	Werner Brandes
Edited by	Hermann Haller
Music by	Alois Melichar
Production company	Boston Film
Distributed by	Films Sonores Tobis
Release date	18 October 1935
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	French

The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "the worst film to be seen in London". Greene's main complaint was the unrealistic and overacted effect of "sublimated sexuality" that the titular violin has on the listeners. Greene also criticized the acting of Bercher and Gauthier in the "dreadful hark-back to seventeenth-century Cremona" where Stradivari creates the violin.^[2]

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• Passerini, Luisa; Labanyi, Jo; Diehl, Karen, eds. (2012). Europe and Love in Cinema. Bristol: Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-672-2.

• Stradivarius at IMDb