Mauprat
About Mauprat
Orphan Bernard de Mauprat is raised by his uncle Tristan, a brigand, to rob and kill with Tristan's sons. Tristan's brother Hubert and Hubert's daughter Edmée try to pull Bernard out of that house. Still rough, Bernard tries to take Edmée from Monsieur de La Marche, the man she is engaged to.
Cast & crew
More about Mauprat
Jean Epstein adapted George Sand's 1837 novel. Luis Buñuel, then in Epstein's acting school, worked as production assistant and played a monk and a guardsman. Albert Duverger photographed it. The film opened in France on October 19, 1926.
Themes
Making
Epstein was arguing for photogénie in his writing at this time, and he staged Sand's story at a real Indre château rather than only on a Paris set.
Look
Albert Duverger shot the picture at the Château de Châteaubrun, using the house and grounds for the Mauprat estate.
Notes
- Sandra Milovanoff plays Edmée. Nino Constantini plays Bernard.
- Maurice Schutz plays both Tristan and Hubert de Mauprat.
- René Ferté is Monsieur de La Marche. Alex Allin is Marcasse. Halma is Jean de Mauprat.
- The château scenes were shot at Châteaubrun in Cuzion, in the Indre.
- Buñuel's bit parts are a monk and a guardsman.
Scenes
- Bernard grows up among Tristan's sons, trained to hate and rob.
- Hubert and Edmée take him out of the brigand household.
- He tries to break Edmée's engagement to Monsieur de La Marche.
Influenced by
- Mauprat (George Sand novel, 1837)
