Image : Jacques MALNOU Montage : Marie-Agnès BLUM Mixage : Eric LESACHET
Production :
Les Films du Horla, Cine Cinéma, CNC, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
Plot synopsis
A filmmaker of Armenian origin, born in Tbilisi in 1897 and died in December 1987, Rouben Mamoulian is one of the pioneers of Broadway musical theater (Porgy and Bess, Okhlahoma, Carousel, Lost in the stars) and of the golden age of Hollywood studios.
He gave their most beautiful roles to Greta Garbo (Queen Christina), Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight) but also to Marlene Dietrich (A Song of Love), Gary Cooper (City Streets), Cyd Charisse (The Beauty of Moscow), created astonishing Zorro and Doctor Jekyll and enriched the emerging cinema with his audacity and inventions.
This film, produced on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death and the Year of Armenia in France, attempts to retrace the dense and complex itinerary of Rouben Mamoulian.
Thanks to the filming carried out in Tbilisi, Rochester, Washington and Hollywood, to the archives of Rouben Mamoulian made available for the first time by the Library of Congress, to the excerpts of filmed interviews shot with the director in 1986 and to the testimonies of his French and American biographers.
This film is the first document made on this filmmaker. .
With the participation of Pierre Berthomieu, Mark Spergel, Arby Ovanessian, Dickran Kouymjian, Miles Krueger, Janis Page…
. Source: www.lesfilmsduhorla.com
