Directed by:
Claude Autant-LaraCinematography:
André BacComposer:
René CloërecCast:
Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Colette Ripert, Grégoire Aslan, Julien Carette, Bach, Roland Armontel, Robert Le Béal, Albert Michel (more)Plots(1)
The eponymous heroine, played by Danielle Darrieux, is the potential bride of playboy Marcel (Jean Dessally). He wants to marry her to land an inheritance. Marcel's plans are blown to bits when Amelie falls in love with a dashing prince (Aslan). These and all other plot convolutions are based on a 19th-century stage farce: indeed, Amelie, Marcel et. al. are presented as actors appearing in a production of that play. As the plot rolls merrily along, director Autant-Lara contrives to have members of the audiences climb on stage and participate in the action, resulting in a finale that wasn't in the script. Coming right after Autant-Lara's grim romantic melodrama Le Diable au Corps, Occupe-Toi D'Amelie was apparently the director's own method of letting his hair down. The film represented the return to the screen of Danielle Darrieux, who'd only recently exonerated herself from a charge of collaborating with the Nazis during the Occupation. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Danielle Darrieux
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Marie-October (1959)
Holy Year (1976)
Jean Desailly
France
Best movies:
The Professional (1981)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
The Soft Skin (1964)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
France
Best movies:
Order of the Daisy (1967)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Orpheus (1950)
Colette Ripert
France
Best movies:
Faites-moi confiance (1954)
Le Plaisir (1952)
Run After Me Until I Catch You (1976)
Grégoire Aslan
Ottoman Empire
Best movies:
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Julien Carette
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Twelve Hours to Live (1950)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Roland Armontel
France
Best movies:
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
L'Idiot (1946)
Robert Le Béal
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Albert Michel
France
Best movies:
The King of the Bla Bla Bla (1951)
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Back to the Wall (1958)
Palmyre Levasseur
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Les Misérables (1958)
Marcelle Arnold
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
The Things of Life (1970)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1961)
Paul Demange
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Jean Pignol
France
Best movies:
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Everything's All Right (1972)
Charles Dechamps
France
Best movies:
L'appel du destin (1953)
Lady on a Train (1945)
The Game of Love (1954)
Geo Forster
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Murderer Lives at #21 (1942)
Zouzou (1934)
Louise Conte
France
Best movies:
Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
Henry Laverne
France
Best movies:
La Poison (1951)
Eugène Yvernès
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Crime and Punishment (1956)
Man About Town (1947)
André Bervil
Best movies:
Le Trou (1960)
The Temptation of Barbizon (1946)
Devil in the Flesh (1947)