Pasteur is a 1935 French biographical drama film directed by Sacha Guitry and Fernand Rivers and starring Guitry, Maurice Schutz and Gaston Dubosc. It portrays the life of the French scientist Louis Pasteur.[1] Guitry had previous written a 1919 play about Pasteur, in which his father Lucien Guitry had starred.

Pasteur
Directed bySacha Guitry
Fernand Rivers
Written bySacha Guitry
Produced byMaurice Lehmann
Fernand Rivers
StarringSacha Guitry
Maurice Schutz
Gaston Dubosc
CinematographyJean Bachelet
Edited byPierre Schwab
Music byLouis Beydts
Production
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Productions Maurice Lehmann
Les Films Fernand Rivers
Distributed byLes Distributeurs Français
Release date
  • 20 September 1935 (1935-09-20)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. Location shooting took place at the Sorbonne in Paris and around Pasteur's hometown of Arbois in Eastern France.

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References

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  1. ^ Brown p.157

Bibliography

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  • Brown, Tom. Spectacle in Classical Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s. Routledge, 2015.
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