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1943 French film

The Eternal Return

Directed by	Jean Delannoy
Written by	Jean Cocteau
Produced by	André Paulvé
Starring	Madeleine Sologne Jean Marais Jean Murat
Cinematography	Roger Hubert
Edited by	Suzanne Fauvel
Music by	Georges Auric
Production company	Films André Paulvé
Distributed by	DisCina (France) Eagle-Lion (United States)
Release date	13 October 1943 (1943-10-13)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Eternal Return (French: L'Éternel retour) is a 1943 French romantic drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais. The screenplay was written by Jean Cocteau as a retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in contemporary France. In the United Kingdom, the film was released in 1946 by Eagle-Lion Distributors under the alternative title Love Eternal.

It was made at the Victorine Studios in Nice with sets designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. The film's costumes were by Georges Annenkov. Location shooting took place at the Chateau de Pesteils in Polminhac. It premiered in Vichy and was one of the greatest commercial hits of the occupation period.

Cast

Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier . French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. A&C Black, 2004.

v t e Films directed by Jean Delannoy
Paris-Deauville (1934) Tamara (1938) Golden Venus (1938) The Black Diamond (1941) Fever (1942) Gambling Hell (1942) The Murderer Is Afraid at Night (1942) Colonel Pontcarral (1942) The Eternal Return (1943) The Hunchback (1944) Blind Desire (1945) Pastoral Symphony (1946) Les jeux sont faits (1947) To the Eyes of Memory (1948) The Secret of Mayerling (1949) God Needs Men (1950) Savage Triangle (1951) The Moment of Truth (1952) Napoleon Road (1953) Daughters of Destiny (1954) The Bed (1954) Obsession (1954) The Little Rebels (1955) Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) Guinguette (1959) Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959) The Baron of the Locks (1960) Love and the Frenchwoman (1960) La Princesse de Clèves (1961) Rendezvous (1961) Imperial Venus (1962) Les amitiés particulières (1964) The Majordomo (1965) The Double Bed (1965) The Sultans (1966) Action Man (1967) Children of Mata Hari (1970) Not Dumb, the Bird (1972) The Crime of Pierre Lacaze (1983) The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987) Bernadette (1988) The Passion of Bernadette (1990) Mary of Nazareth (1995)

Films directed by Jean Delannoy

v t e Jean Cocteau
Bibliography
Drama	Le Gendarme incompris (1921) Orpheus (1926) The Human Voice (1930) The Infernal Machine (1934) L'École des veuves (1936) Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (1937) Les Parents terribles (1938) Les Monstres sacrés (1940) La Machine à écrire (1941) Renaud et Armide (1943) L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946) Bacchus (1951)
Prose	The White Paper (1928) Les Enfants terribles (1929) Opium: Diary of a Cure (1930)
Films written and directed	The Blood of a Poet (1932) Beauty and the Beast (1946) The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) Les Parents terribles (1948) Orpheus (1950) La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952) Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Films written	The Phantom Baron (1943) L'Éternel retour (1943) Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) Ruy Blas (1948) Les Enfants terribles (1950) The Black Crown (1951) La Princesse de Clèves (1961) Thomas the Impostor (1965)
Ballet libretti	Le Dieu bleu (1912) Parade (1917) Le Bœuf sur le toit (1920) Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921) Le Train Bleu (1924) Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
Opera libretti	Antigone (1927) Oedipus rex (1927) Le pauvre matelot (1927)
Related	Bastion Museum Jean Cocteau: A Life Jean Cocteau House Jean Cocteau Museum Jean Marais Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem, Fréjus The Orphic Trilogy

v t e Tristan and Iseult
Characters	Anguish of Ireland Brangaine Iseult Kahedin Mark of Cornwall Meliodas Morholt Tristan
Medieval sources	Thomas of Britain's Tristran Béroul's Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan Prose Tristan "Cligès" "Chevrefoil" Folie Tristan d'Oxford Sir Tristrem Ystorya Trystan
Later literature	Tristram and Iseult (1852) Tristram of Lyonesse (1882) Tristan (1903) The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall (1923) Finnegans Wake (1939) Tristan and Iseult (1971) Arthur Rex (1978) The Old French Tristan Poems (1980)
Music	Tristan und Isolde (1865, Wagner) Discography Tristan chord "Liebestod" Souvenirs de Munich (ca. 1887) Turangalîla-Symphonie (1949, Messiaen) Tristan (1975, Henze) Qntal III: Tristan und Isolde (2003) "Tristan" (2005)
Film	The Eternal Return (1943) The Woman Next Door (1981) Lovespell (1981) Fire and Sword (1982) In the Shadow of the Raven (1988) Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Art	Tristan Quilt Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels Tristan and Isolde (Egusquiza)

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