Movies: Antonin Artaud
- 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
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A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of c...
- 1927
Napoleon (1927)
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A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political s...
- 1928
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
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Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism....
- 1978
Despair (1978)
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Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Fel...
- 1931
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
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The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version....
- 2019
Bajazet - Considering the Theatre and the Plague (2019)
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Frank Castorf has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it comes to this classical French author, the tragedy of existence is born from collusions between priva...
- 1935
Crimson Dynasty (1935)
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Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Agu...
- 1934
Liliom (1934)
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Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after goi...
- 1932
Wooden Crosses (1932)
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The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this canno...
- 1933
L'enfant de ma soeur (1933)
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Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become friends....
- 1935
Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
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French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families....
- 1928
L'Argent (1928)
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Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s....
- 1932
Coup de feu à l'aube (1932)
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A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader. Thanks to a cunning policeman posing as a member of a rival gang, the bandits are trapped in a suburba...
- 1917
The Torture of Silence (1917)
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Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your average romantic-triangle tale. Simply put, the film concerns a doctor, his wife, and his brother. The d...
- 1962
A Look at Madness (1962)
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The daily life of patients and the work of doctors, including Dr. François Tosquelles, at the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban in Lozère....
- 1934
Sidonie Panache (1934)
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In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there....
- 1928
Verdun: Visions of History (1928)
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A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle....
- 2019
Imag-en cada verso (2019)
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A BLACK AND WHITE FILM. A FLASH OF SOME COLOR. IMAGE IS IMAGINATION....
- 1923
News Item (1923)
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An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages which create psychological constructs that unfold a Parisian love affair which turns into a threesom...
- 1933
Mater Dolorosa (1933)
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One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife....