Colonel Chabert (1943 film)
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1943 film

Colonel ChabertDirected byRené Le HénaffScreenplay byPierre Benoît

Maurice Griffe

Marc Maurette

Yves MirandeBased onColonel Chabert by Honoré de BalzacProduced byÉdouard HarispuruCinematographyRobert LefebvreEdited byMarguerite RenoirMusic byLouis Beydts

Release date

Running time

102 minutes

Colonel Chabert (French: Le colonel Chabert) is a 1943 French drama film directed by René Le Hénaff, starring Raimu, Marie Bell, Aimé Clariond and Jacques Baumer. It tells the story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac. James Travers has written, "This superlative adaptation of Balzac's great novel was one of a number of prestigious film productions made under the Occupation (1940–1944)."[1][2]

A later film adaptation of the Balzac story, with Gerard Depardieu in the lead, was released in 1994.

Raimu as Le colonel Chabert

Marie Bell as La comtesse Ferraud

Jacques Baumer as Delbecq

Aimé Clariond as Maître Derville

Fernand Fabre as Le comte Ferraud

Suzanne Flon as Albertine

Pierre Alcover as Le directeur de l'asile

Roger Blin as Un clerc

Jacques Charon as Un clerc

Pierre Brulé as le fils Ferraud

Arlette Wherly as la fille Ferraud