Christian Stengel

Christian Stengel is a realizer, scenario writer and producer of French cinema, born the October 22nd 1902 with Marly-the-King (78) and deceased the June 15th 1986 with Versailles. Its patronym comes to him from the Danish family of its father, Frederic, who was useful in the French Army during the Guerre of 1914-1918. His/her mother, Juliette Gacon, were French.

Frederic and Juliette were married each one with the brother and the sister of the other: Berthe Stengel, sister of Frederic, were married with François Gacon, brother of Juliette. They had three children, of which a son, Jean, who was to adopt the name of artist Jean Solar.

Christian Stengel worked on several occasions with his first cousin, Jean Solar. This last took part in several of its films as type-setter or actor, in particular in Seul in the night (1945), with Bernard Blier and Sophie Desmarets, the Family Duraton (1940), with Christmas-Christmas, Jules Berry; in I sing (1938) with Charles Trenet, and in the Pirates of the rail (1937) with Charles Vanel and Erich von Stroheim.

Catalog of films

1937 : the Man of nowhere , corealized with Pierre Channel
1937: Pirates of the rail
1938: I sing
1940: the Family Duraton
1945: Only in the night
1947: Dreams of love
1947: the Village lost
1948: the Figurehead
1949: Rome Express train
1951: No pity for the women
1951: the most beautiful girl of the world
1952: Midnight quay of Bercy
1955: Breakage-neck Miss
1957: explosive Holidays

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Catalog of films of Christian Stengel

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