Michel Strogoff (film, 1956)

French film of 1956, with Curd Jurgens, Genevieve Page, Sylva Koscina, Jean Parédès, Francoise Fabian drawn from the novel Michel Strogoff of Jules Vernes

Whereas Siberia folds the spine under the invasion of the Tartars, the captain Strogoff mail of the imperial guard is charged by the Tsar with informing that a plot prepares against him. Strogoff will carry out at the sides of Nadia a great tour…

" This novel of Jules Verne, who is not science fiction, for once, milked as it was the fashion at the end of the nineteenth century of Russia tsarist and the major tremors which crossed it announcing the revolutions which prepared. Here it is about a revolt of the Tartars against the empire, helped by a Russian general félon. Jules Verne places as regards his special messenger and Tsar sent to Irkoutsk. He mixes in more learnedly repression anti-intellectuals with the Tsar and a dimension in love in this tour with high-risks through the empire, and thus a melodrama tragicomic. For a European film of 1956 the effects large spectacle are rather remarkable with scenes of vast cavalry and troop movements, the descents of tumultuous rivers and the vast Russian plains. And it is already the oil which saves the setting of the Tsar and his brother the Large Duke… " (Jacques Colardeau)

Beautiful music of film at summer composed by Norbert Glanzberg

Internal bonds

triumph of Michel Strogoff

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