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Valiant French actress Rosine Deréan - from "Douce France to Ravensbrück"

On April 25th, 2009, in the tiny village of Genillé (Indre-et-Loire), where she lived and died, a tribute will be held to the stylish '30's French actress and several films she starred in will be shown in 8 mm.

Rosine Deréan was born in 1910 and began acting in 1930 directed by major French cinema director Julien Duvivier appearing with such legendary stars as Jean GABIN and famous directors as Maurice Tourneur. In 1937, she married dashing French actor, Claude DAUPHIN.

The glamourous pair settled in the Château de La Bourdillière, in the picturesque country town of GENILLE located on the Unesco-endorsed cultural heritage route of the beautiful Castles on the Loire River/Valley in the center of France.

The fairy tale turned to horror as World War II broke out in 1940, and Dauphin joined the Free French Forces in LONDON under Général de Gaulle, during which the brave actress, a Patriot and Resistant, hid British pilots in her castle, resulting in her arrest by the Germans after being denounced and deportation to the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in March 1944 where she was a prisoner during WWII.

Rosine Deréan ultimately came back to and settled in Genillé and divorced Dauphin, living there after leaving the film industry in 1946, until her death in 2001 aged 91.

During the decade at the height of her career,Rosine Deréan appeared in the following films:

• Le Roman d'un tricheur (1936)
• Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1937)
• Arsène Lupin détective (1937)
• Faisons un rêve (1937)
• Les Surprises de la radio (1940)
• L'Assassin n'est pas coupable (1946)
• Les Cinq gentlemen maudits (1931)
• Aux urnes, citoyens! (1932)
• Ce cochon de Morin (1932)
• La Belle marinière (1932)
• Le Chien jaune (1932)
• Maquillage (1932)
• Les Deux orphelines (1933)
• Lac aux dames (1934)
• L'Or (1934)
• La Route heureuse (1935)
• L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon (1935)
• Marchand d'amour (1935)
• Veille d'armes (1935)
• Gigolette (1936)