Today we will talk about the film "Angelica and the Sultan".Actors and roles will be presented further. It's about a movie that is a screen version of two books, part of a series of novels dedicated to Angelica, the authorship of Serge and Anne Golon.
Michelle Mercier is an actress. She starred in 55 films.Her fame was brought by the role of Angelica. The actress is the daughter of an Italian and a Frenchman. She was fond of dancing from an early age. Became the soloist of the ballet of the opera house of Nice. Maurice Chevalier, having met once with a young ballerina in the theater, predicted her success. In his film, the actress appeared on the screen for the first time. She performed an episodic role with only one remark. At 17, the girl went to conquer Paris. Her parents objected because they saw in the daughter of the heiress of a pharmaceutical company that belonged to the Mercier family.
At first she danced in the entreprise.Then she joined the Eiffel Tower Ballet. In Paris I met with Charlie Chaplin. He advised to learn English and to make movies. Both troupes broke up. The actress went to London. There she studied acting. Soon returned to the parental home. Debut in the movie was in the film "Turn the handle." Director Patel met the girl in Nice, in the house of her father. There she returned, after desperate to achieve success in the ballet. Joslin did not like the producers, so she became Michelle. According to the official version, the pseudonym was taken from Michelle Morgan, who played the main role in "Turn of the Pen". However, the same name was worn by the sister of the actress, who died from typhus in her childhood.
Then came the roles in romantic comedies,American horror film, as well as episodic images in the tapes "Shoot the pianist" Francois Truffaut and "Do you love Brahms?" Anatole Litvak. Criticism noted the naturalness of the movements of the young actress, as well as external data and lack of constraint.
Robert Hossein played Geoffrey de Peyrak. Ali Ben Ayed appeared in the film as a sultan.
Now let's give some interesting information aboutmovie. Above were the actors who played it. "Angelica and the Sultan" is a picture in the work on which several countries took part - Italy, Germany, Tunisia, France. The film was released in 1968. The French film crew was hosted by Habib Bourguiba, the first president of Tunisia.