---
title: 'Du Guesclin (1949)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Bernard de Latour'
released: '1949-06-03'
runtime_minutes: 88
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/du-guesclin-1949'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040304/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Du Guesclin (1949)

1949 · 88 min · Adventure · France


## Synopsis

Du Guesclin is a 1949 French historical adventure film directed by Bernard de Latour and starring Fernand Gravey, Junie Astor and Ketti Gallian. The film is a biopic about Bertrand du Guesclin, a baron, Constable of France, and high-ranked officer in the French Army of the 14th Century, who fights in the Hundred Years' War. It is based on the novel Du Guesclin by Roger Vercel. It was filmed at Marseille Studios and on location at the Château de Dinan in Brittany. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Bernard de Latour](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-de-latour)
- **Screenplay:** [Roger Vercel](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-vercel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Maurice Thiriet](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-thiriet)
- **Director of Photography:** [Nikolai Toporkoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-toporkoff)

## Cast

- [Suzanne Nivette](https://cinepixo.com/people/suzanne-nivette) as sœur Anne-Marie
- [Alfred Baillou](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-baillou) as le bouffon
- [Léon Bary](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-bary) as Charles, Duke of Brittany
- [Ketti Gallian](https://cinepixo.com/people/ketti-gallian) as Jeanne de Mallemains
- [Gérard Oury](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-oury) as le dauphin
- [Marcel Delaître](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-delaitre)
- [André Reybaz](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-reybaz)
- [Paul Amiot](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-amiot) as le duc d'Anjou
- [André Wasley](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-wasley)
- [Charlotte Ecard](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlotte-ecard) as la nourrice
- [Roger Vincent](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-vincent) as un seigneur
- [René Stern](https://cinepixo.com/people/rene-stern) as le chapelain
- [Michel Salina](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-salina) as Canterbury
- [Maurice Maillot](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-maillot)
- [Gisèle Casadesus](https://cinepixo.com/people/gisele-casadesus) as Joan, Duchess of Brittany

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/du-guesclin-1949
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