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French masterworks : Russian émigrés in Paris, 1923-1929.
LIBRA DVD 024 569 disc 1-5 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Courcy, F. de (Frédéric), 1795-1862, author.
- Flers, Robert de, 1872-1927, author.
- Croisset, Francis de, 1877-1937, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Croisset, Francis de, 1877-1937.
- Flers, Robert de, 1872-1927.
- Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833.
- Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936.
- Théaulon, M. (Emmanuel), 1787-1841.
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Class consciousness.
- Poor children.
- Private investigators.
- France.
- Private investigators--France--Drama.
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870--Film adaptations.
- Dumas, Alexandre.
- Théaulon, M. (Emmanuel), 1787-1841--Film adaptations.
- Théaulon.
- Courcy, F. de (Frédéric), 1795-1862--Film adaptations.
- Courcy, F. de.
- Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936--Film adaptations.
- Pirandello, Luigi.
- Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833--Drama.
- Kean, Edmund.
- Runaway husbands--Drama.
- Runaway husbands.
- Poor children--France--Drama.
- Flers, Robert de, 1872-1927--Film adaptations.
- Flers, Robert de.
- Croisset, Francis de, 1877-1937--Film adaptations.
- Croisset, Francis de.
- Class consciousness--France--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Show business films.
- Romance films.
- Comedy films.
- Silent films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 5 videodiscs (660 min.) : silent, black and white & tinted ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Russian émigrés in Paris, 1923-1929
- Burning crucible
- Late Mathias Pascal
- New gentlemen
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, CA] : Flicker Alley, 2013.
- Language Note:
- French subtitles with added English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (all regions); stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- (Le Brasier ardent) When a French industrialist and his wife have marital troubles, a famous private detective is hired to get at the truth. Instead, the presence of the detective adds new and complicated dimensions to the couple's misgivings.
- (Kean) Shakespearean actor, Edmund Kean, falls in love with a woman above his station, and as a result, his career begins to crumble.
- (Feu Mathias Pascal) When his beloved mother and his beloved child die on the same day, Mathias deserts his wife and takes up a new identity in a new country. The authorities find a dead man in the local river and assume it is a suicical Mathias. Mathias, however, has become rich in his new identity, and when, years later, he returns home to make things right, he finds his wife has remarried.
- (Gribiche) After seeing a young man in Paris perform an act of honesty, an American millionairess is so impressed that she offers to adopt him, take him to America, and give him the best education money can buy. The boy's single mother reluctantly agrees, but things do not always go as well as expected.
- (Les Messieurs nouveaux) A ballerina with minor talents has to choose between a once-lowly electrician who has risen to political power, and the aristocrat who has always supported her.
- Contents:
- Le Brasier ardent = The Burning crucible / Films Albatros ; direction and scenario, Ivan Mosjoukine, assisted by Serge Nadejdine (110 min. ; 1923)
- Kean / Films Albatros ; direction, Alexandre Volkoff ; produced by Alexandre Kamenka ; scenario, Alexandre Volkoff, Ivan Mosjoukine, Kenelm Foss (136 min. ; 1923)
- Feu Mathias Pascal = The late Mathias Pascal / Cinégraphic, Films Pascal ; direction, Marcel L'Herbier, assisted by Alberto Cavalcanti ; scenario, Marcel L'Herbier 171 min. ; 1925)
- Gribiche / Films Albatros ; direction, Jacques Feyder, assisted by Henri Chomette ; scenario, Jacques Feyder, from a screen story by Frédéric Boutet (112 min. ; 1925)
- Les Nouveaux messieurs = The New gentlemen / Films Albatros, Sequana Films ; direction, Jacques Feyder, assisted by Charles Barrois and Marcel Carné ; scenario and titles, Jacques Feyder and Charles Spaak (135 min. ; 1928).
- Participant:
- (Le Brasier ardent) Ivan Mosjoukine, Nathalie Lissenko.
- (Kean) Ivan Mosjoukine, Nicolas Koline.
- (Feu Mathias Pascal) Ivan Mosjoukine, Marcel Pradot.
- (Gribiche) Jean Forest, Françoise Rosay.
- (Les Nouveaux messieurs) Gaby Morlay, Albert Préjean.
- Credits:
- (Le Brasier ardent) Music, Neil Brand.
- (Kean) Music, Robert Israel.
- (Feu Mathias Pascal) Music, Timothy Brock.
- (Gribiche) Music, The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
- (Les Nouveaux messieurs) Music, Antonio Coppola.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of five silent French films produced between 1923 and 1928 with modern musical accompaniment added.
- Kean is based in part on a play by Alexandre Dumas, pere, Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume Théalon and Frédéric de Courcy. Feu Mathias Pascal is based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Les Nouveaux messieurs is based on a play by Robert de Flers and Francis de Croisset.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Contains:
- Brasier ardent
- Kean
- Feu Mathias Pascal
- Gribiche
- Nouveaux messieurs
- ISBN:
- 1893967654
- 9781893967656
- OCLC:
- 844971445
- Publisher Number:
- 617311676598
- FA0029 Flicker Alley
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