The Call of Silence
1936 film by Léon Poirier
The Call of Silence, also screened as The Call (French: L'Appel du Silence), is a 1936 French drama film directed by Léon Poirier and starring Jean Yonnel, Pierre de Guingand and Jacqueline Francell. It is a biography based on the life of the Catholic missionary Charles de Foucauld.
Plot
Charles de Foucauld travels the Sahara as a missionary. He is killed by local bandits.
Cast
Jean Yonnel as Charles de Foucauld
Pierre de Guingand as Général Laperrine
Jacqueline Francell as Mademoiselle X
Alice Tissot as La femme du notaire
Suzanne Bianchetti as La femme du monde
Pierre Juvenet as Le colonel
Thomy Bourdelle as Un général
André Nox
Pierre Nay as Le marquis de Morès
Fred Pasquali
Auguste Bovério
Alexandre Mihalesco
Fernand Francell
Jeanne Marie-Laurent
Georges Cahuzac
Jean Kolb
Henri Defreyn
Maurice Schutz
Victor Vina
Émile Saint-Ober
Maurice de Canonge
Pierre Darteuil
Pierre Athon as Lieutenant de Guissart
René Bergeron
Jean Buquet]
Mireille Monard as Pianist
Francia Seguy
References
Bibliography
Andrews, Dudley. Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press, 1995.
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