La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession

La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession

14 mins | Animation, Fantasy | April 30, 1958

This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!

La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession

14 mins | Animation, Fantasy | April 30, 1958

La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession
This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!
Producers Argos Films, Son et lumière, Como Films
Original title La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession
Directors Henri Gruel
Writers Jean Suyeux

Cast

Pascal Mazzotti

as Narrator (voice)

Cora Vaucaire

as Self

Léon Camy

as Magic painter (uncredited)

Boris Vian

as Mona Lisa's professor of smiles (uncredited)

Anne Vernon

as (uncredited)

Judith Magre

as (uncredited)

Edmond Tamiz

as Mona Lisa's fanatic (uncredited)

Jacques Hilling

as (uncredited)