François Premier (1937)
Actors:
Alice Tissot (actress),
Henri Bosc (actor),
Albert Broquin (actor),
Nicolas Amato (actor),
Paul Faivre (actor),
Fernandel (actor),
Pierre Ferval (actor),
René Génin (actor),
Charles Lemontier (actor),
Sinoël (actor),
René Sylviano (composer),
Mona Goya (actress),
Alexandre Mihalesco (actor),
Alexandre Rignault (actor),
Christian-Jaque (director),
Plot: Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
Keywords: 16th-century, 1930s, abcess, anachronism, applause, based-on-history, browning, character-name-in-title, cult-film, dancing-cheek-to-cheek
Genres:
Comedy,