Narcisse (film)

1940 film

Narcisse

Directed by| Ayres d'Aguiar
Written by| Anthony Kimmins
André Gillois
Karel Lamac
Produced by| Ayres d'Aguiar
Starring| Rellys
Paul Azaïs
Monique Rolland
Cinematography| Victor Arménise
Paul Cotteret
Robert Juillard
Edited by| André Versein
Music by| René Sylviano

Production
company

Gray-Film

Distributed by| Cocinor

Release date

* 27 March 1940 (1940-03-27)

Running time

| 95 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

Narcisse is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Ayres d'Aguiar and starring Rellys, Paul Azaïs and Monique Rolland.[1] [2] [3] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and the Saint-Laurent-du-Var Studios in Nice. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It is a remake of the 1938 British film It's in the Air directed by Anthony Kimmins and re-used footage from the earlier film. It was produced during the Phoney War period and was released in March 1940, a few weeks before the beginning of the Battle of France.

## Synopsis

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Narcisse Pigeon hopes to join the French Air Force, but fails the selection board. One day, at a friend's house, he tries on his uniform and discovering an overlooked urgent message in the pocket, he goes to deliver it to the base. He is mistaken for a serving airmen and quickly falls foul of the sergeant major, while also falling in love with the attractive canteen girl Rosine. He then accidentally ends up flying a new prototype plane, inadvertently performing a series of acrobatic manoeuvres in the air, before somehow managing to land it again.

## Cast

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* Rellys as Narcisse Pigeon
* Paul Azaïs as Crépin
* Monique Rolland as Rosine
* Claude May as Josette
* André Gabriello as Le sergent-major
* Jeanne Fusier-Gir as La tante
* Georges Lannes as Le commandant
* Henri Crémieux as L'inspecteur général
* Jean Joffre as L'oncle
* Roger Legris as Lafolle
* Georges Grey as Robert
* Robert Ozanne as Le lieutenant
* Georges Péclet as Le pilote

## References

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1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.417
2. ^ Rège p.5
3. ^ https://www.unifrance.org/film/10030/narcisse

## Bibliography

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* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1935–1939. Pygmalion, 1986
* Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
* Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

## External links

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* Narcisse at IMDb

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