Cordial Agreement

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.

Cast

Victor Francen

Edouard VII, Prince and King

Bernard Lancret

Jean Roussel

Pierre Richard-Willm

Capt. Charles Roussel

Janine Darcey

Sylvia Clayton

Gaby Morlay

Queen Victoria

Jean Périer

President Emile Loubet

Jacques Baumer

Georges Clemenceau

Louis Seigner

German ambassador

André Lefaur

Lord Clayton

Arlette Marchal

Queen Alexandra