Serenade or Schubert's Serenade (French: Sérénade) is a 1940 French historical film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilian Harvey, Louis Jouvet and Bernard Lancret. It portrays a fictional romance between the Austrian composer Franz Schubert and an English dancer. The film was the first of two the Anglo-German actress Lillian Harvey made in France, after leaving Nazi Germany.[1]

Serenade
Directed byJean Boyer
Written by
Produced byRobert Tarcali
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music byPaul Abraham
Production
company
Tarcali-Films
Distributed byAstra Paris Films
Release date
  • 28 February 1940 (1940-02-28)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Ascheid p. 243

Bibliography

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  • Ascheid, Antje (2010). Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-843-2.
  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
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