Idylle au Caire

Idylle au Caire
Directed by	Reinhold Schünzel Claude Heymann
Written by	Jacques Bousquet Walter Reisch
Produced by	Raoul Ploquin
Starring	Renate Müller George Rigaud Henry Roussel
Cinematography	Carl Hoffmann
Edited by	Eduard von Borsody
Music by	Werner R. Heymann
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date	30 June 1933 (1933-06-30)
Running time	80 minutes
Countries	France Germany
Language	French

Idylle au Caire is a 1933 French-language comedy film directed by Claude Heymann and Reinhold Schünzel and starring Renate Müller, George Rigaud and Henry Roussel. It was an alternate language version of the film Season in Cairo made by UFA.^[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Egypt. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig.

Synopsis

While visiting Cairo Tobby Blackwell and Stéphy plan to set up their widowed parents as a couple. Instead they find themselves having to marry each other.

Cast

• Renate Müller as Stéphy
• George Rigaud as Tobby Blackwell
• Henry Roussel as Le comte Léopold de Weidling-Weidling
• Andrée Spinelly as Mabel Blackwell
• Youcca Troubetzkov as Périclès Pietro Cochino
• Jakob Tiedtke as Ismaël Pacha
• Théo Tony as Le directeur de l'hôtel
• Robert Négrel as Le speaker
• Angelo Ferrari as Un gigolo
• Étienne Denois as Un gigolo

References

1. Bergfelder & Bock p. 434

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• Idylle au Caire at IMDb