The miracles take place only once

the miracles do not take place that once is a Franco-Italian film of Yves Allégret left in 1951.

Synopsis

The school year touches at its end and Jerome, medical student, is on the point of leaving on vacation to Brittany with friends. However he remains pensive and fears to regret never not to have approached Claudia, an Italian coed who must even leave France the evening. It thus decides to go to its hotel. After some avoidances two young people acknowledge their reciprocal love, Jerome accompanies Claudia at the station and not being able to leave it thus promises to him to join it in Tuscany the next month, as soon as it finds enough money. In Tuscany, Jerome realizes that he likes Claudia seriously and proposes to him to marry it. The two in love ones return to their hotel but the city is agitated: the war has just been declared. Jerome learns from the consulate that it is mobilized and that it must return. Separated by the war, not being able more to correspond, Jerome the trace of Claudia loses. It will try to forget it by remaking its life, but haunted by the memory of this lost love, it will not arrive there. Eleven in later, it will leave for Italy to try to find it, but time passed…

Data sheet

Title: the miracles take place only once
Réalisateur: Yves Allégret
Scenario: Jacques Sigurd
Images: Jean Isnard
Producing: Sacha Gordine
Decorations: Alexandre Trauner
Sound: Robert-Jean Philippe
Black and White - Mono
Lasted: 98 minutes (1. 38)

Distribution

Alida Valli : Claudia
Jean Marsh: Jerome
Marcelle Arnold: The owner of the bar
Christine Chesnay: The woman of Jerome
Charles Rutherford: American
Dedi Ristori: Small Francesca
Aldo Moschino: The doctor
Emma Baron: The owner of the hotel
Nada Fiorelli: Maria Forni
Gerard Buhr
Vera Cini
Edmond Ardisson: The employee
Daniel Ceccaldi: A friend of Jerome
Jacques Denoël: A friend of Jerome
Bernard Farrel (not credited)
Alex Favier (not credited)
Claire Gerard: The owner of the restaurant (not credited)
Francoise Prévost (not credited)
Alain Raffael: A friend of Jerome (not credited)
Michele Riccardini (not credited)

Comments

If the beginning and the medium of film are a little hard, if the play of Jean Marais is not very convincing (contrary to that of Alida Valli), the last part of film, very Rossellinienne , is a great success and erases number of the preceding defects.

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