| Le Bal du comte d'Orgel | |
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| Directed by | Marc Allégret |
| Written by | Marc Allégret Françoise Sagan Phillipe Grumbach Raymond Radiguet (novel) |
| Produced by | Phillipe Grumbach |
| Starring | Jean-Claude Brialy |
| Edited by | Victoria Mercanton |
| Music by | Raymond Le Sénéchal |
| Distributed by | Cocinor |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Le Bal du compte d'Orgel (English:The Ball of Count Orgel)[1] is a French film from 1970. It was the last film directed byMarc Allégret, who was also the producer of this film. It was screened at the1970 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.[2]
Based onRaymond Radiguet'sbook of the same name, posthumously published in 1924, the film concerns aball hosted by the Comte d'Orgel (English:Count of Orgel).
Set in 1920, the Comte hosts a soirée and dance for the upper echelons of Parisiansociety. One of the guests is a handsome young man named François de Séryeuse (played byBruno Garcin), who during the course of the ball falls in love with the Comte's wife, Comtesse Mahé (played bySylvie Fennec).
The Comtesse alerts her husband (the Comte), but he dismisses it, seeing de Séryeuse as childish and common. However, Mahé falls for François, and faints withpassion on stage during a performance ofThe Tempest with François. Mahé continues to dream about him, however she is confined in her marriage.
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