The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen

(Redirected from On a volé la Joconde) 1966 film

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Directed by	Michel Deville
Written by	Nina Companeez Michel Deville Walter Reisch (screenplay 1931)
Starring	George Chakiris Marina Vlady
Release date	20 May 1966 (1966-05-20)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (French: On a volé la Joconde) is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville.

Plot

In Paris around 1911, a handsome young Italian called Vincent arrives looking for work as a picture framer. He is taken on by Lemercier, whose firm is used by the Louvre museum, and gets to know staff at the Louvre. He also gets to know Nicole, a pretty young chambermaid who lets him take her out but nothing more. At a variety show. she agrees to become the magician's assistant and goes off with him to his next booking. Vincent says he will be in Avignon for a few days if she changes her mind. Next day, when the Louvre is closed for cleaning, he removes the Mona Lisa and sets off with it by automobile for Avignon. He is followed by two crooks seeking to relieve him of the painting, two police detectives on his trail, Nicole who has changed her mind, and the magician seeking to retrieve his assistant. After many battles between the various parties, the police regain the painting and Vincent regains Nicole. who he takes to Italy and enlists as his assistant for future art thefts.

Cast

George Chakiris as Vincent
Marina Vlady as Nicole
Margaret Lee as Marie-Christine Lemercier
Paul Frankeur as Lemercier
Jean Lefebvre as Gardien
Henri Virlojeux as Le conservateur du Louvre
Alberto Bonucci as Illusioniste
Jacques Echantillon as Ernest
Jess Hahn as Fêtard

References

"The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen". Film Affinity. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

External links

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Michel Deville
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958) Tonight or Never (1961) Adorable Liar (1962) Because, Because of a Woman (1963) Girl's Apartment (1963) Lucky Jo (1964) The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (1966) Kiss Me General (1966) Zärtliche Haie (1967) Benjamin (1968) Bye bye, Barbara (1969) The Bear and the Doll (1970) Raphael, or The Debauched One (1971) The Woman in Blue (1973) Love at the Top (1974) The Apprentice Heel (1977) Dossier 51 (1978) Le Voyage en douce (1980) Eaux profondes (1981) The Little Bunch (1983) Death in a French Garden (1985) Paltoquet (1986) The Reader (1988) Summer Night in Town (1990) Lest We Forget (1991) Toutes peines confondues (1992) Aux petits bonheurs (1994) La Divine Poursuite (1997) Sachs' Disease (1999) Almost Peaceful (2002) The Art of Breaking Up (2005)

Films directed by Michel Deville

v t e Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Lisa del Giocondo (subject)
Replicas	Isleworth Mona Lisa (16th century) Mona Lisa (Prado, c. 1503–1516) Hermitage Mona Lisa (c. 1550) L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) Mini Lisa (2013)
Related	Replicas and reinterpretations Speculations Male Mona Lisa theories Two–Mona Lisa theory Timeline of fictional stories about the Mona Lisa La Joconde nue
1911 theft	Vincenzo Peruggia Eduardo de Valfierno Yves Chaudron Louis Béroud
On screen	The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931) Arsène Lupin (1932) The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (1966) City of Death (1979) Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992) Mona Lisa's Revenge (2009) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Music	Mona Lisa (1915 opera) "Mona Lisa" (1950 song) "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" (1984 song) "Lisa Mona Lisa" (1988 song) "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" (2011 song) "The Mona Lisa" (2013 song) In Search of Mona Lisa (2019 EP)
Literature	The Second Mrs. Giaconda (1975) I, Mona Lisa (2006) The Smile (2008)

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