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Cordial Agreement (1939)

Cordial Agreement (1939)

Drama History
Release Date: 1939, April 20
Directors: Marcel L'Herbier
Countries: France
Production: Arcadia Films, Arcadia Films, Flora Films, Flora Films
Cast: Yves Brainville, Jean Worms, Dora Doll, Paul Amiot, Jean Galland, Janine Darcey, Louis Seigner, Junie Astor, Gaby Morlay, Victor Francen, Robert Pizani, Jaque Catelain

Overview:

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.