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.
Napoléon
as Jean-Paul MaratA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a...
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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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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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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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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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Lucrezia Borgia
as Girolamo SavonarolaFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...
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Napoléon Bonaparte
as MaratA second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
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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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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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Crimson Dynasty
as Cyrus BackKoenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa...
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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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Sidonie Panache
as uncreditedIn 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her...
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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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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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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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One night woman
as JaroslavA lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after...
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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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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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L'enfant de ma soeur
as uncreditedValerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon,...
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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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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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