Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930)

Director:

Augusto Genina

Writers:

René Clair (idea and adaptation) and
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (adaptation)

Release Date:

21 August 1930 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for...

Plot Keywords:

Beauty Pageant | Film In Film

Cast

Louise Brooks	...	Lucienne Garnier
Georges Charlia	...	André
Augusto Bandini	...	Antonin (as H. Bandini)
André Nicolle	...	Le secrétaire du journal (as A. Nicolle)
Marc Ziboulsky	...	Le manager (as M. Ziboulsky)
Yves Glad	...	Le maharajah
Alex Bernard	...	Le photographe
Gaston Jacquet	...	Le Duc
Jean Bradin	...	Prince de Grabovsky

Also Known As:

Beauty Prize (International: English title)
Miss Europe (UK)
Prix de beauté (France) (poster title)

Runtime:

France:93 min | Germany:108 min (23 fps) (restored silent version) | USA:93 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Sofar-Film

Movie Connections:

Featured in Lulu in Berlin (1984)

Soundtrack:

Je n'ai qu'un Amour, c'est toi

One of the BEST silent foreign films

Artisticly shot, actors portray exactly their role. You get a real feeling watching Lucienne ascend from poverty to the most beautiful girl around. A sense of tragedy to triumph to tragedy again. All in all I have seen this film at least 10 times. And can VERY well say that Prix De Beute' (the Beauty Prize, Miss Europe) is a MAJOR favorite in my silent film collection. The expressiveness of Louise Brooks is perfect and I recommend this film to ANYONE who appreciates artistic beauty coupled with a tragic story line.