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Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Graziella is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls for a fisherman's granddaughter – the eponymous Graziella – during a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when he must return to France, and she soon dies.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- 1849
Character description, analysis and casting breakdown for Graziella from West Side Story.
Graziella was originally published as part of Alphonse de Lamartine's 1849 memoirs, Les confidences, but soon later also separately, as a novel -- a "roman vrai' (true novel) as he called it -- and enjoyed tremendous popular success as such.
Synopsis. Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
- Giorgio Bianchi
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Drama Romance. Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
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KG Productions turns distributor with Graziella. Michéle Ray-Gavras and Costa Gavras’ company will be bringing the new film by Mehdi Charef, starring Denis Lavant and Rossy De Palma, to theatres on 3 June . 24/03/2015 | Distribution | France
