Marcel Cerdan entre deux combats
Produced by Gaby Granger for Planet Film Corporation
Marcel Cerdan between two fights, 1949
Produced by Gaby Granger for Planet Film Corporation
Canvas poster
89 × 63 cm
"This documentary film is shot as a fiction on the life of the champion where we see that Marcel Cerdan is as gentle in life as he is fierce between the ropes. The Americans nickname him B52, others The Moroccan Bomber. From his arms powerful as a formidable puncher, he literally knocks down his opponents. Gustave Humery knows something about it and will remain in a coma for 36 hours after 22 seconds of combat. This athlete adored by the French is married to Marinette and in love with Edith Piaf. In each fight he wears the blue pants made by his mother in the 1930s. But the melancholic Cerdan is a tragic boxer. He died at the age of 33 (1949) while on his way to New York, in the crash of a Constellation plane. Air France."