The shooting of “Dorothée seeks love”, symbol of the difficult resumption of French cinema after the Second World War

After several years without having made a film. it should be all flame, but here he shooting “dorothée seeks love”, symbol is moping: a grief of love gnaws at the morale of director Edmond T. Gréville. A certain Marion Malville. a second -row actress, drives him crazy and, instead of rejoicing to finally find the adrenaline of a film set, this 39 -year -old married man is obsessed with his intimate torments, as we can read in his memories (Thirty-five years in the cinema jungleActes Sud) published in 1995, almost thirty years after his death.

In June 1945, Edmond T. Gréville therefore started his new feature film, Dorothée seeks loveat the Victorine studios, in Nice, her hometown. The Parisian studios. prey to purification, have not yet reopened, a boon for the Cité Azurean which welcomes four shoots that summer after years of scarcity. The feature tells the story of an old selfish billionaire to which the good god refuses entry into paradise. He is sent back to earth shooting “dorothée seeks love”, symbol to make amends by guiding a young girl in search of love in. her sentimental adventures.

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