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DVD006817

French Masterworks. Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923 - 1928

Multiple

Flicker Alley, 2013

Description:

DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   5 videodiscs of 5.

Notes:

Supplemental materials include: booklet with essays on each film by film historian Lenny Borger.

Titles

+ Braisier Ardent, Le

Alternate Title:

Burning Crucible, The

Director:

Mosjoukine, Ivan

Production Co:

Films Albatros

Running Time:

Feature.   110 minutes

Sound:

sound - stereo

Color:

tinted b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1923

Language:

Silent with French intertitles and optional English subtitles

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

A famous Parisian sleuth (played by director Mosjoukine) is hired to help a wealthy industrialist win back the attentions of his ultra-modern, bored wife. Cited by Jean Renoir as the reason he decided to become a filmmaker, THE BURNING CRUCIBLE features writer-director-star Mosjoukine playing eleven different parts. Music by Neil Brand.

+ Kean

Alternate Title:

Desordre et genie

Director:

Volkoff, Alexandre

Production Co:

Sequana Films; Films Albatros

Running Time:

Feature.   136 minutes

Sound:

sound - stereo

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1924

Language:

Silent with French intertitles and optional English subtitles

Genre:

Biography, Drama, Silent Cinema

Notes:

In an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s 1836 play KEAN, Ivan Mosjoukine plays the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, who falls in love with a woman above his social station. Music by Robert Israel.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Feu Mathias Pascal

Alternate Title:

Late Mathias Pascal, The; Late Matthew Pascal, The

Director:

L’Herbier, Marcel

Production Co:

Films Albatros; Cinégraphic

Running Time:

Feature.   171 minutes

Sound:

sound - stereo

Color:

tinted b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1925

Language:

Silent with French intertitles and optional English subtitles

Genre:

Drama, Silent Cinema

Notes:

In an adaptation of a play by Luigi Pirandello, Ivan Mosjoukine plays a man who is believed to have committed suicide and decides to start a new life. Future Ealing Studios director Alberto Cavalcanti served as assistant director. Music by Timothy Brock.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Gribiche

Director:

Feyder, Jacques

Production Co:

Films Albatros

Running Time:

Feature.   112 minutes

Color:

tinted b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1925

Language:

Silent with French intertitles and optional English subtitles.

Genre:

Drama, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Restoration by Cinémathèque française. Score by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Study of a working-class boy who agrees to be adopted by a wealthy American socialite. Supplemental materials include: bonus scene contained in some prints of the film released outside France.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Nouveaux messieurs, Les

Alternate Title:

New Gentlemen, The

Director:

Feyder, Jacques

Production Co:

Films Albatros; Sequana Films

Running Time:

Feature.   135 minutes

Sound:

sound - stereo

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1928

Language:

Silent with French intertitles and optional English subtitles.

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Restoration by Cinémathèque français. Score by Antonio Coppola, performed by Octuor de France. A satirical comedy about a mediocre dancer who is the mistress of both a conservative politician and a left-wing union organizer. The film was initially banned in France for its portrayal of members of Parliament, then released after the studio agreed to several cuts.

Link to:

FII catalog |