Musee de la Gendarmerie et du Cinema
Museum celebrating the history of film and cinema in Saint-Tropez
As well as discovering the many cinematic influences in the region you are invited to explore the incredible history of the 'Gendarmes de Saint-Tropez'
Saint-Tropez was brought to the attention of the cinema world in the 1960's with a series of French cult films about the comic lives of the gendarmes (police) based in the pretty port town of Saint-Tropez.
The building that housed the real gendarmerie from 1789 until 2003 became legendary in the films of director Jean Girault. Brigitte Bardot, known as the face of Saint-Tropez, also features in the museum as it was here that Roger Vadim realised the film “…And God Created Woman”, creating with it the myth of Saint-Tropez.
The museum offers an introduction to the history of cinema in Saint-Tropez and reveals the many films shot in the Var peninsula, along with the various trades related to the cinema.
