Abel Gance

Abel Gance

Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927). He was born in Paris in 1889. In 1909, he acted in his first film. He also wrote scenarios, and often sold them to Gaumont. During this period he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, fatal at the time, but he recovered. In 1911, with some friends he established a production company, Le Film Français, and began directing his own films. With the outbreak of WW I, rejected by the army on medical grounds, he started writing and directing for a new film company, Film d'Art until 1918, making over a dozen successful films. Charles Pathé underwrote his next film, J'accuse (1919), in which Gance confronted the waste and suffering which the war had brought. In 1920, he developed La Roue. He brought an unprecedented level of energy and imagination to the technical realization of his story, employing elaborate editing techniques and innovative use of rapid cutting which made the film highly influential. The finished film ran for nearly nine hours, but was edited down for distribution. In 1921, Gance visited America to promote J'accuse. He met D. W. Griffith, whom he had long admired. He was also offered a contract with MGM but turned it down. He then embarked on his greatest project, a six-part life of Napoléon. Only the first part was completed, tracing his early life, through the Revolution, up to the invasion of Italy, but even this occupied a vast canvas with meticulously recreated historical scenes and scores of characters. The film was full of experimental techniques, combining rapid cutting, hand-held cameras, superimposition of images, and, in wide-screen sequences, shot using a system he called Polyvision needing triple cameras (and projectors), achieved a spectacular panoramic effect, including a finale in which the outer two film panels were tinted blue and red, creating a widescreen image of a French flag. The original version ran for around 6 hours. A shortened version received a triumphant première at the Paris Opéra in April 1927. Throughout his life he kept returning to Napoléon, editing his footage, and as a result the original 1927 film was lost from view for decades. The dedicated work of the film historian Kevin Brownlow produced a five-hour version, still incomplete but fuller than anyone had seen since the 1920s. It was presented at the Telluride Film Festival in 1979, and the occasion brought a belated triumph to Gance's career, and made his name known to a worldwide audience. In the assessment of Kevin Brownlow, "...[Abel Gance] made a fuller use of the medium than anyone before or since". As well as his multiscreen ventures with Polyvision, he explored the use of superimposition of images, extreme close-ups, fast rhythmic editing, and he made the camera mobile in unorthodox ways – hand-held, mounted on wires or a pendulum, or even strapped to a horse. He also made early experiments with the addition of sound to film, and with filming in color and in 3-D. There were few aspects of film technique that he did not seek to incorporate in his work, and his influence was acknowledged by contemporaries and later by the French New Wave film-makers.

  • Titlu: Abel Gance
  • Popularitate: 2.196
  • Cunoscut pentru: Directing
  • Zi de nastere: 1889-10-25
  • Locul nasterii: Paris, France
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  • De asemenea cunoscut ca si: 아벨 강스, Abel Perthon
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  • 1931
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    La fin du monde

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  • 1927
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    Napoléon

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  • 1910
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    Molière

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  • 1930
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    Autour de la fin du monde

    Autour de la fin du monde

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  • 1923
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    La Roue

    La Roue

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    Autour de la roue

    Autour de la roue

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  • 1972
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    Bonaparte et la révolution

    Bonaparte et la révolution

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  • 1928
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    La Chute de la maison Usher

    La Chute de la maison Usher

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  • 1970
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    Abel Gance's Magnum Opus

    Abel Gance's Magnum Opus

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  • 1963
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    Abel Gance, hier et demain

    Abel Gance, hier et demain

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  • 1968
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    Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite

    Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite

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  • 1935
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    Napoléon Bonaparte

    Napoléon Bonaparte

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  • 1931
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    La fin du monde

    La fin du monde

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    La fin du monde

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  • 1927
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    Napoléon

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    Napoléon

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  • 1939
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    Paradis perdu

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  • 1935
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    Lucrèce Borgia

    Lucrèce Borgia

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  • 1943
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    Căpitanul Fracasse

    Căpitanul Fracasse

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  • 1935
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    Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades

    Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades

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  • 1923
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    La Roue

    La Roue

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    La Roue

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  • 1919
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    J'accuse

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  • 1960
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    Austerlitz

    Austerlitz

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  • 1960
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    Austerlitz

    Austerlitz

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  • 1955
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    La Tour de Nesle

    La Tour de Nesle

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  • 1938
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    J'accuse

    J'accuse

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  • 1917
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    Barberousse

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    Barberousse

    Barberousse

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  • 1964
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    Cyrano et D'Artagnan

    Cyrano et D'Artagnan

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    Cyrano et D'Artagnan

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  • 1928
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    Marines et cristeaux

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  • 1916
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    Le périscope

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    Le périscope

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  • 1915
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    L'héroïsme de Paddy

    L'héroïsme de Paddy

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    L'héroïsme de Paddy

    L'héroïsme de Paddy

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    Le fou de la falaise

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    Le fou de la falaise

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    L'énigme de dix heures

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    L'énigme de dix heures

    L'énigme de dix heures

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    Un drame au château d'Acre

    Un drame au château d'Acre

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    Un drame au château d'Acre

    Un drame au château d'Acre

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  • 1914
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    L'infirmière

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  • 1911
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    La Digue

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  • 1911
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    La Digue

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  • 1909
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    Le portrait de Mireille

    Le portrait de Mireille

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  • 1924
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    Au Secours !

    Au Secours !

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  • 1915
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    La folie du Docteur Tube

    La folie du Docteur Tube

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  • 1917
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    Mater dolorosa

    Mater dolorosa

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  • 1910
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    Molière

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  • 1937
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    Un grand amour de Beethoven

    Un grand amour de Beethoven

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    Un grand amour de Beethoven

    Un grand amour de Beethoven

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  • 1933
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    Mater Dolorosa

    Mater Dolorosa

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  • 1941
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    Vénus aveugle

    Vénus aveugle

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    Vénus aveugle

    Vénus aveugle

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  • 1918
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    La dixième symphonie

    La dixième symphonie

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    La dixième symphonie

    La dixième symphonie

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  • 1917
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    Le droit à la vie

    Le droit à la vie

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  • 1934
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    La Dame aux camélias

    La Dame aux camélias

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  • 1923
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    La Roue

    La Roue

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  • 1915
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    La folie du Docteur Tube

    La folie du Docteur Tube

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  • 1939
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    Louise

    Louise

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  • 1927
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    Napoléon

    Napoléon

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  • 1955
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    La Tour de Nesle

    La Tour de Nesle

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  • 1924
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    Au Secours !

    Au Secours !

    6.6 1924 HD

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  • 1924
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    Au Secours !

    Au Secours !

    6.6 1924 HD

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  • 1954
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    La Reine Margot

    La Reine Margot

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  • 1956
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    J'accuse! [Magirama]

    J'accuse! [Magirama]

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  • 1933
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    Le Maître de forges

    Le Maître de forges

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  • 1935
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    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

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    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

    Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

    6.6 1935 HD

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  • 1917
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    Le droit à la vie

    Le droit à la vie

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  • 1933
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    Mater Dolorosa

    Mater Dolorosa

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  • 1938
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    Le Voleur de femmes

    Le Voleur de femmes

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  • 1972
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    Bonaparte et la révolution

    Bonaparte et la révolution

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  • 1910
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    La fille de Jephté

    La fille de Jephté

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  • 1923
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    La Roue

    La Roue

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  • 1935
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    Napoléon Bonaparte

    Napoléon Bonaparte

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  • 1919
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    J'accuse

    J'accuse

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  • 1939
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    Paradis perdu

    Paradis perdu

    6.2 1939 HD

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  • 1912
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    Le masque d'horreur

    Le masque d'horreur

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  • 1934
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    Poliche

    Poliche

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  • 1912
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    Le masque d'horreur

    Le masque d'horreur

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  • 1972
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    Bonaparte et la révolution

    Bonaparte et la révolution

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  • 1917
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    La zone de la mort

    La zone de la mort

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  • 1916
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    Les gaz mortels

    Les gaz mortels

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    Les gaz mortels

    Les gaz mortels

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  • 1917
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    Mater dolorosa

    Mater dolorosa

    5.2 1917 HD

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  • 1935
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    Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades

    Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades

    6 1935 HD

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  • 1938
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    J'accuse

    J'accuse

    6.3 1938 HD

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  • 1943
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    Căpitanul Fracasse

    Căpitanul Fracasse

    6.4 1943 HD

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  • 1912
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    Le tragique amour de Mona Lisa

    Le tragique amour de Mona Lisa

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1958
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    Magirama

    Magirama

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1935
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    Lucrèce Borgia

    Lucrèce Borgia

    5.2 1935 HD

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  • 1919
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    J'accuse

    J'accuse

    7.418 1919 HD

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  • 1935
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    Napoléon Bonaparte

    Napoléon Bonaparte

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  • 1935
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    Napoléon Bonaparte

    Napoléon Bonaparte

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  • 1929
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    Napoleon auf St. Helena

    Napoleon auf St. Helena

    4.833 1929 HD

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  • 1917
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    La zone de la mort

    La zone de la mort

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1923
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    L'Âtre

    L'Âtre

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  • 1934
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    La Dame aux camélias

    La Dame aux camélias

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1974
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    Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1978
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1970
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    1 1970 HD

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