Antonin Artaud
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antonin Artaud licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
as Jean MassieuA classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized...
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Napoleon
as Jean-Paul MaratA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a...
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Wooden Crosses
as Soldat VieubléThe young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But...
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Liliom
as Le rémouleur (The Knife Grinder)Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public...
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L'Argent
as MazaudAdapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the...
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Napoléon Bonaparte
as MaratA second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
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Verdun, memories of history
as uncreditedA visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle...
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News Item
as M. DeuxAn experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical...
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Lucrezia Borgia
as Girolamo SavonarolaFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...
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The Threepenny Opera
as Un mendiantThe French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German...
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Crimson Dynasty
as Cyrus BackKoenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa...
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La Femme d'une nuit
as JaroslavA lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after...
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The Torture of Silence
as uncreditedHardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless...
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Surcouf
as Jacques Morel, un traitreBased on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert...
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Sidonie Panache
as L'émir Abd-el-KaderIn 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her...
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The Child King
as uncreditedAn eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of...
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Coup de feu à l'aube
as TrembleurA crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The...
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Verdun: Visions of History
as The intellectualA dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and...
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Graziella
as CeccoDuring a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter,...
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Faubourg Montmartre
as Follestat (as Artaud)Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
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Mater Dolorosa
as uncreditedOne of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and...
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Mathusalem
as uncreditedMathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of...
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Bonaparte et la révolution
as uncreditedAbel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent...
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Around the End of the World
as SelfA short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".
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L'enfant de ma soeur
as uncreditedValerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon,...
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Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud
as (archive footage)A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in...
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