Violettes impériales

Violettes impériales

🎞️ Movie 120 min FR
โ˜… 4.3 /10 1924

This historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France. Here, Raquel Meller plays a Spanish flower girl who saves the life of the French empress Eugenie de Montijo (played by Suzanne Blanchetti), by taking her place in her carriage. When the carriage is overthrown by the anarchist's bomb, the girl survives because of the masses of violets in the imperial carriage, the empress' favorite flowers.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Raquel Meller
Raquel Meller
Violetta
Suzanne Bianchetti
Suzanne Bianchetti
Eugénie de Montijo
André Roanne
André Roanne
Comte Hubert de Saint-Affremond
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Jeanne Even
comtesse de Saint-Affremond
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Jimmy O'Kelly
Juan
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Claude France
Mademoiselle de Perry-Fronsac
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Roger San Juana
Manuel
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Robert Guilbert
Duc de Morny
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Sylviane de Castillo
Madame de Montijo
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Mademoiselle Farnèse
Duchesse de Mondovi
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Jules Kruger
Cinematographer
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Paul Portier
Cinematographer
Raquel Meller
Raquel Meller