Goodbye, Beautiful Days

Goodbye, Beautiful Days (French: Adieu les beaux jours) is a 1933 French-German comedy film directed by André Beucler and Johannes Meyer and starring Brigitte Helm, Jean Gabin and Ginette Leclerc.[1] [2] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Biarritz and San Sebastian. The film's sets were designed by art directors Erich Kettelhut and Max Mellin. It was co-produced and distributed by L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne, the French subsidiary of the German company UFA. A separate German-language version Happy Days in Aranjuez with Helm appearing in both films.

Goodbye, Beautiful Days
Directed byAndré Beucler
Johannes Meyer
Written byAndré Beucler
Peter Francke
Walter Wassermann
Based onHappy Days in Aranjuez by Hans Székely and Robert A. Stemmle
Produced byMax Pfeiffer
StarringBrigitte Helm
Jean Gabin
Ginette Leclerc
CinematographyFriedl Behn-Grund
Edited byHerbert B. Fredersdorf
Music byHans-Otto Borgmann
Ernst Erich Buder
Production
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Distributed byL'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date
  • 3 November 1933 (1933-11-03)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesFrance
Germany
LanguageFrench

Synopsis

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The beautiful Olga works in league with confidence tricksters in Paris, but falls in love with the engineer Pierre Lavernay on a visit to Spain. However her hopes of a new life with him are threatened by her former criminal associates and the police.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Harriss p.195
  2. ^ Waldman p.47

Bibliography

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  • Harriss, Joseph. Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France. McFarland, 2018.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
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