Fortune (television serial) - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Synopsis

This serial puts in scene the life of Switzerland Johann August Suter which gained America in 1834, unloaded in California in 1839 after having crossed all the continent and having remained in Honolulu and in Alaska, fortune made by installing in the valley of Sacramento the first and the most important colony of immigrants, and failed to become governor of California. The discovery of gold on its grounds in January 1848 started famous the Gold rush which, paradoxically, caused its fall and its ruin.

Distribution

Pierre Michael: Johann (John) Sutter
Armand Abplanalp: James Brooke
Georges Adet: The old senator
Annick Allières: Mathilde (the woman of the bookseller of San Francisco)
Louis Arbessier: Sutter father
Yves Arcanel: The young senator
Bruno Balp: The tavernier (of New York)
Lucien Barjon: The bookseller (of San Francisco)
Edmond Beauchamp: Hartlieb
Raoul Billerey: The tavernier (of Strong Sutter)
Paul Bisciglia: Monk (the city council man)
Charles Blavette: The old man Dickinson
Jean Bolo: Sir James Douglas
Jean-Marie Good: The tavernier of San Francisco
Paul Bonifas: Mr. Burckardt
Gerard Buhr: Sam Brannan
Yves Office: Jimmy Simpson
Léo Campion : The captain Alexandre Rotschoff
Marcel Charvey: Maxwell the Tyne
Philippe Chauveau: The journalist
Georges Claisse: Frederic Sutter
Pierre Collet: Heckli
Leonce Horn: The chief of the village of Yerba-Buena
Luc Delhumeau: The tavernier
Jean-Jacques Douvaine: Reston
Jacques Ebner: The cash clerk
Marc Eyraud: John Bidwell
Jean-Jose Fleury: Finlay
Genevieve Fontanel: Jenny Carruthers
Daniel Gall: Jess Clark
Roland Giraud: Charles Cooper
Francoise Giret: Anna Sutter
Fatty Jean: Gregory Davies
Gil Gueci: Small Cheyenne
Fernand Guiot: The commander of the Clementine
Georges Hilarion: Maniki
Jacques Hilling: Mac Dougall
Gerard-Antoine Huart: Kit Carson
Pierre Lafont: Rawlins
Jean-Jacques Lagarde: Walter Griffith
Robert Béal: The governor Peter Burnett
Raymond Rent: The banker Clifford
Rita Maiden: Mrs. Alvarado
Jacques Mayor: Mac Calloun
Jacques Marshal: Alvarez
Pascal Mazzotti: Colonel Ivan Kouprianof
Raymond Miller: Arthur Edward Sullivan
Pierre Meyrand: James Marshall
Francoise Meyruels: Ines Guttierez
Marcel Midroit: A senator
Pierre Mirat: The governor Alvarado
Henri Moatti: Ivan Ivanovitch
Michel Montfort: Frank Molloy
Jean-Pierre Moreux: The young lawyer
Antoine Mosin: Borotchenko
Jean-Paul Moulinot: Doctor Charles Robinson
Hubert Christmas: Arnold
Laure Spangles: Marc Burckardt
Paul Pavel: Harrison
Michel Peyrelon: William Radford
Mario Pilar: The general Vallejo
Douglas Read: The sheriff
Jean-Claude Robbe: The law officer
Gilbert Robin: The mayor
Jacques Robiolles: The English commander
Maria-Rosa Rodriguez: Dolorès
Albert Simono: Ted Savitt
Jean-Louis Tristan: The young delegate (with the convention of Monterey)
Andre Var: Howard
Nicole Vassel: The waitress
Jacques Verlier: Bartlett

Data sheet

Music: Georges Delerue

Comments

The scenario is hardly inspired by main work relating to the character of Suter, Gold , of Blaise Cendrars. Starting from the true story of John Suter, such as it was brought back by biographers at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, he seeks to make dream the teenagers (and beyond) by drawing a hero having almost very lived: departures without return, voyages through the grounds and oceans, misery, fortune, friendship, love, descent into Hell, death finally.

The destiny of the character such as it is told in the serial is all the more seizing that at the beginning Johann Sutter is the son of a middle-class rich person of the area of Basle (in reality, Suter resulted from a family of rather modest millers but had married the girl of a rich person citizen of Burgdorf, a Swiss village located close to Bern). By leaving its country and its family to leave in America - “Because it is large, and vacuum, and far” - it gives up an easy life, written by advance, to live free and create a new world.

It reaches that point while settling the first in the interior of the grounds of California of north, with the feet of the Sierra Nevada. Thanks to its charisma, its determination and its perspicacity, he manages to constitute an empire on a ground however coveted by the great powers of the time: the Mexico, the Russia, the England and France! It builds a reputation of “good Samaritain” by collecting and lodging the immigrants who crossed the American continent since the Missouri and who arrive, exhausted, until Fort Sutter. But the destiny, in the shape of gold, will continue it by causing its ruin, its fall then its exile.

At the end of its life, last between a village of Pennsylvania where is installed its family and Washington where there solicits the members of the Congress so that justice is returned to him, the last victory of Sutter will be “to be remained John Sutter until the end”, i.e. to be themselves beaten unceasingly and to leave an example.

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