The Mistress of Treves (film)

The Mistress of Treves
Directed by	Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Produced by	Giorgio Venturini
Written by	Corrado Pavolini Carlo Terron Jacopo da Varazze (book) Lino de Joanna Giuseppe del Ongaro
Starring	Rossano Brazzi Anne Vernon Gianni Santuccio
Music by	Giovanni Fusco
Cinematography	Massimo Dallamano
Edited by	Loris Bellero
Production company	Venturini Film
Distributed by	Accord-Film Regionale Synimex
Release date	6 February 1952
Running time	84 minutes
Country	France Italy West Germany
Language	Italian

The Mistress of Treves (Italian: La Leggenda di Genoveffa) is a 1952 historical drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Rossano Brazzi, Anne Vernon and Gianni Santuccio.^[1] Made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany, it was filmed at a studio in Milan and on location in the Aosta Valley. It is based on the legend of Genevieve of Brabant and is set during the time of the Crusades.^[2]

Cast

• Rossano Brazzi as Sigfrido, conte di Treviri
• Anne Vernon as Genoveffa di Brabante
• Gianni Santuccio as Golo
• Enzo Fiermonte as Il barone Drago
• Edmea Lari as La locandiera
• Elena Borgo as Berta
• Pietro Tordi as Orso
• Nerio Bernardi
• Arrigo Peri
• Domenico Viglione Borghese
• Piera Vidale
• Piero Carnabuci
• Emilio Baldanello
• Raf Pindi
• Franco Fabrizi
• Jolanda Blasi
• Anna Carena
• Carlo Dale

References

1. ↑ Bock & Bergfelder p.382
2. ↑ Harty p.165

Bibliography

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Kevin J. Harty. The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe. McFarland, 1999.

External links

• La Leggenda di Genoveffa on IMDb

See also

• Genoveffa di Brabante (film, 1947), a film produced in 1947 by Primo Zeglio .
• Genoveffa di Brabante (film, 1964) a 1964 film produced by José Luis Monter