The Boarders at Saint-Cyr

The Boarders at Saint-Cyr
Directed by	Gennaro Righelli
Written by	Alessandro De Stefani Carlo Veneziani
Based on	Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Giorgio Carini
Starring	Vanna Vanni Silvana Jachino Maurizio D'Ancora
Cinematography	Domenico Scala
Edited by	Gennaro Righelli
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Production company	Mediterranea Film
Distributed by	Consorzio Italiano Noleggiatori Filmi
Release date	December 1939 (1939-12)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (Italian: Le educande di Saint-Cyr) is a 1939 Italian historical comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Vanna Vanni, Silvana Jachino and Maurizio D'Ancora. It is an adaptation of the 1843 play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr by Alexandre Dumas. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori.

Synopsis

In Napoleonic France two girls at a boarding school next door to the Saint-Cyr military academy in Paris are visited by a couple of cadets who climb over the wall to woo them. However they are discovered and in the ensuing scandal the Empress Josephine insists that they have to hastily get married. Napoleon himself intervenes, in sympathy to the two forces husbands, and sends them on an immediate mission to the Kingdom of Naples ruled by his own brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat. Abandoned on their wedding night the two young woman head to Italy in pursuit of their new husbands.

Cast

• Vanna Vanni as Gisella Montclair
• Silvana Jachino as Gemmina Merian
• Maurizio D'Ancora as Renato Marchand
• Elio Steiner as Marcello di St. Herem
• Luigi Carini as Napoleone Bonaparte
• Maria Jacobini as L'imperatrice Giuseppina
• Lola Braccini as La direttrice del collegio
• Carlo Tamberlani as Gioacchino Murat
• Enzo Gainotti as D'Acqueville
• Romolo Costa as La Rochelle
• Eugenio Duse as L'aiutante di La Rochelle
• Nino Marchesini as Aubry
• Pina Gallini as L'insegnante di buon comportamento
• Liana Del Balzo as L'insegnante di musica
• Olinto Cristina as Il marchese di St. Herem
• Giuseppe Addobbati as Un caddetto
• Gustavo Serena as L'ufficiale di Stato Maggiore

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Reich, Jacqueline Beth. Fascism, Film, and Female Subjectivity: The Case of Italian Cinema 1936-1943. University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

External links

• The Boarders at Saint-Cyr at IMDb