Angélique, Marquise des Anges
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Countries | France Italy West Germany |
Language | French |
Box office | $22 million (est.) |
Angélique, Marquise des Anges is a 1964
It was shot at the
The film was a major hit across Continental Europe, and in 1967 was distributed in Britain. It was followed by four sequels starting with Marvelous Angelique.[2]
Synopsis
In mid-17th century France, young
With the passing of months, Angélique discovers the talents and virtues of her remarkable husband: scientist, musician, philosopher; and to her surprise falls passionately in love with him. But Jeoffrey's unusual way of life is threatened by the ambitions of the Archbishop of Toulouse, and soon arouses the jealousy of the young king himself, Louis XIV. Jeoffrey is arrested and charged with sorcery. Angélique will single-handedly take on the might of the royal court and, survive murder and poison attempts on herself in a supreme effort to save Jeoffrey from the stake, to no avail. Instinctively, her whole being intent on revenge and her determination to survive, Angélique, alone and desperate, plunges into the darkness of the Paris underworld.
Cast
- Michèle Mercier as Angélique Sancé de Monteloup
- Robert Hossein as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
- Jean Rochefort as François Desgrez, solicitor
- Claude Giraud as Philippe de Plessis-Bellières
- Giuliano Gemma as Nicolas Merlot, the childhood friend of Angélique aka Calembredaine
- Jacques Toja as King Louis XIV
- Jacques Castelot as Archbishop of Toulouse
- Charles Regnieras Conan Bécher
- Bernard Woringer as Bernard d'Andijos
- Robert Porte as Monsieur brother of the king
- Madeleine Lebeau as la Grande Demoiselle
- Philippe Lemaire as De Vardes
- François Maistre as Prince de Condé
- Geneviève Fontanel as Carmencita, a former mistress of Jeoffrey
- Jean Topart as Mr Bourié, the prosecutor
- Etchika Choureau as Hortense de Sancé, a sister of Angélique
- Jacques Mignot as Frère Raymond de Monteloup, a brother of Angélique
- Yves Barsacq as Le procureur Fallot
- Bernard Lajarrigeas Baron Sancé de Monteloup, Angélique's father
- Jean Ozenne as Marquis de Plessis-Bellières
- Alexandre Rignault as Guillaume Lützen
- Renate Ewert as Margot
- Pierre Hatet as Chevalier de Germontaz
- Robert Hoffmann as Chevalier de Lorraine
- Robertoas Barcarole
- Denise Provence as Barbe
- Jacques Hilling as Mr Molines, notary
- André Rouyer as Clément Tonnelle
- Black Salem as Kouassiba, loyal servant of Jeoffrey
- Claude Vernier as President of the tribunal
- Rosalba Neri as La Polak
- Henri Cogan as Cul-de-Bois
- Serge Marquand as Jactance
- Monique Mélinand as Marquise de Plessis-Bellières
- Sylvie Coste as friend of Carmencita
- Albert Dagnant as The Swiss fugitive
- Michaël Munzer as Beau Garçon
- Paula Dehelly as Angélique's governess
- Le chien Karlo as Sorbonne, Desgrez's dog.
- Claire Athana as Queen Marie-Thérèse of Spain
- Georges Guéret as Fritz Auer, alchemist
- Elisabeth Ercy as Rosine
- Patrick Lemaître as Flipot
- Guido Alberti as Le grand Mathieu
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi as A courtier
- Voice dubbing
- Jacques Thébault as French voice of Giuliano Gemma
- Rosy Varte as French voice of Rosalba Neri
- Michèle Montel as French voice of Renate Ewert
Production
Michèle Mercier recalled she had a clause added to her contract not to appear frontally naked on camera. "For the bath scene of the wedding night, I had put plaster on the point of my breasts and a plastic triangle at the bottom. Once in the water, panic, everything came off! I redid the scene. Me, a pharmacist's daughter, I know all about plasters!"-Mercier said.[3]
Box office
In France, the film sold 2,958,684 tickets, making it one of the top ten highest-grossing films of 1964 in the country.[4] This was equivalent to an estimated $1.83 million in gross revenue.[a] It was also the second top-grossing film of the year in West Germany,[5] where it sold 6,471,800 tickets and grossed €7,577,500[6] ($7.94 million). It was also the year's fifth top-grossing film in Italy with 5.442 million ticket sales.[5] In Spain, the film sold 211,941 tickets upon release in 1964.[7]
In the
In total, the film sold more than 60,184,425 tickets worldwide, grossing an estimated $22.1 million in France, Germany and the Soviet Union.
Angélique films
- 1964: Angélique, Marquise des Anges, director Bernard Borderie, starring Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
- 1965: Marvelous Angelique, director Bernard Borderie, starring Michèle Mercier, Claude Giraud, Jean Rochefort
- 1966: Angelique and the King, director Bernard Borderie, starring Michèle Mercier, Jean Rochefort
- 1967: Untamable Angelique, director Bernard Borderie, starring Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein
- 1968: Angelique and the Sultan, director Bernard Borderie, starring Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein
Notes
- ^ a b See Box office § Average ticket price.
References
- ^ "Angélique". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-05-10.
- ^ Bergfelder p.261
- ^ "Angélique et le Roy (6Ter) Michèle Mercier : "Le producteur insistait pour que je me déshabille"". programme-television.org. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ^ "Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964) — France". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964) — Europe". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Die erfolgreichsten Filme in Deutschland 1964" [The Most Successful Films in Germany in 1964]. Inside Kino (in German). 1964. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ KinoPoisk (in Russian). Yandex. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ Kudryavtsev, Sergey (4 July 2006). "Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате". LiveJournal (in Russian).
- ISBN 978-1-4766-0803-7.
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- Angélique, Marquise des Anges at IMDb