French films of 1923
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A list of films produced in France in 1923
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1923 in film
-Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...
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| 1923 1923 in film -Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A... |
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| Coeur fidèle Coeur fidèle Cœur fidèle is a 1923 French drama film directed by Jean Epstein. It has the alternative English title Faithful Heart. The film tells a melodramatic story of thwarted romance, set against a background of the Marseille docks, and experiments with many techniques of camerawork and... |
Jean Epstein Jean Epstein Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the... |
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| La Souriante Madame Beudet | Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film... |
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| Le Retour a la Raison Le Retour à la Raison Le Retour à la Raison is a 1923 film directed by Man Ray. It consists of animated textures, Rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse .-Sources:*Flicks - March 2001 ; Chris Dashiell -External links:* *... |
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| La Roue La Roue La Roue is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse!. It was released in 1923. Originally 32 reels in length , the current reconstruction runs 20 reels... |
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| Rouletabille chez les bohémiens | ||||
| Résurrection Resurrection Resurrection refers to the literal coming back to life of the biologically dead. It is used both with respect to particular individuals or the belief in a General Resurrection of the dead at the end of the world. The General Resurrection is featured prominently in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim... |
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| Frou-Frou Frou-Frou Frou-Frou, is a French comedy film from 1955, directed by Augusto Genina, written by A.E. Carr, starring Dany Robin and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles: "The Toy Wife", "Frou-Frou, die Pariserin" .- Cast :... |
Guy Du Fresnay Guy du Fresnay Guy Du Fresnay was a French silent film director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.-Filmography:*Démon du foyer, Le *Jardin du pirate, Le *Cathédrale merveilleuse, La *De la coupe aux lèvres... |
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| Koenigsmark | Léonce Perret Léonce Perret Léonce Perret was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director... |
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| L’affaire Blaireau | Louis Osmont | |||
| L'affaire de la rue | Henri Diamant-Berger | |||
| L'affaire du Courrier de Lyon | Léon Poirier Léon Poirier Léon Poirier was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards. He directed some 25 films between 1913 and 1949 .His most famous film today is his drama-documentary depicting the World War I Battle of Verdun... |
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| L'aventurier L'Aventurier L'Aventurier is the first studio album by French new wave band, Indochine. It was released in 1982.-Track listing:# L'Aventurier - 3.53# L'Opportuniste - 2.26# Leila - 3.56# Docteur Love - 2.32... |
Maurice Mariaud Maurice Mariaud Maurice Mariaud was a French silent film director, actor and screenwriter.He was best known for his silent films of the 1910s and his work overlapping with Portuguese film in the early 1920s notably the 1922 Portuguese film Os Faroleiros.... |
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| L'Emprise | Henri Diamant-Berger | |||
| L’enfant-roi | Jean Kemm | |||
| L'énigme du Mont Agel | Alfred Machin Alfred Machin Alfred Machin was one of the rare French film directors whose films expressed progressivist tendencies before World War I. Ironically it turns out during this war his films of the current events were of cinematographic service to the French Army. After 1920, AlfredMachin devoted himself in... , Henri Wulschleger |
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| L’espionne | Henri Desfontaines Henri Desfontaines Henri Desfontaines was a French film director, actor and scriptwriter.- As director :* 1908 : Hamlet* 1909 : Le Puits et le pendule* 1910 : Un invité gênant... |
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| L'Image | Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema... |
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| L'Inhumaine L'Inhumaine L'Inhumaine is a 1924 French drama-science fiction film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. It was notable for its experimental techniques and for the collaboration of many leading practitioners in the decorative arts, architecture and music... |
Marcel L'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total... |
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| L’inondation | Louis Delluc Louis Delluc Louis Delluc was a French film director, screen writer and film critic, many of whose late 1910s film writings for French newspapers were collected in the volume Cinema et cie... |
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| L’insigne mystérieux | Henri Desfontaines Henri Desfontaines Henri Desfontaines was a French film director, actor and scriptwriter.- As director :* 1908 : Hamlet* 1909 : Le Puits et le pendule* 1910 : Un invité gênant... |
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| La Dame de Monsoreau La Dame de Monsoreau La Dame de Monsoreau is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The novel is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.... |
René Le Somptier René Le Somptier René Eugène Le Somptier was a French filmmaker and journalist.He made his first short film, Poum à la chasse, in 1908 with his father as an actor... |
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| La faute des autres | Jacques Oliver | |||
| La Garçonne | Armand Du Plessy | |||
| La Gitanilla | André Hugon André Hugon André Hugon was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards particularly of the 1920s and into sound.... |
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| La Guitare et le Jazz-Band | Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès was a French actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1920s and early 1930s... |
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| La légende de sœur Béatrix | Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s.... |
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| La malchanceuse | E.B. Donatien | |||
| La Mare au diable | Pierre Caron Pierre Caron (director) Pierre Caron was a French film director. At the end of the Second World War he was forced to flee to South America, where he later died.- Filmography :* 1920 : L'Homme qui vendit son âme au diable... |
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| La nuit rouge | Maurice de Marsan and Maurice Gleize | |||
| La neige sur les pas | Henri Etiévant | |||
| La porteuse de pain | René Le Somptier René Le Somptier René Eugène Le Somptier was a French filmmaker and journalist.He made his first short film, Poum à la chasse, in 1908 with his father as an actor... |
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| La réponse du destin | André Hugon Sortie | |||
| La rue du pavé d'amour | André Hugon Sortie | |||
| La voyante | Léon Abrams, Louis Mercanton Louis Mercanton Louis Mercanton was a Swiss film director, Screenwriter and actor.-Selected filmography:Director* Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth co-director* Le mystère de la villa rose * The Nipper * Octave... |
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| Le chemin de l'abîme | Adrien Caillard | |||
| Le costaud des Epinettes | Raymond Bernard Raymond Bernard Raymond Bernard was a French filmmaker and related to French playwright father Tristan Bernard and brother to Jean-Jacques Bernard... |
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| Le Cousin Pons Le Cousin Pons Le Cousin Pons is virtually the last of the 94 works of Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine, which are in both novel and short story form. Begun in 1846 as a novella, or long-short story, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres , the other part of which was La Cousine Bette... |
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| Le gamin de Paris | Louis Feuillade Louis Feuillade Louis Feuillade was a prolific and prominent French film director from the silent era. Between 1906 and 1924 he directed over 630 films... |
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| Le marchand de plaisirs | Jaque-Catelain | |||
| Le Petit Chose Le Petit Chose Le Petit Chose is an autobiographical memoir by French author Alphonse Daudet. It recounts Daudet's early years from childhood, through boarding school and finally to Paris and his first successes as an author... |
André Hugon André Hugon André Hugon was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards particularly of the 1920s and into sound.... |
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| Le petit Jacques | Georges Raulet, Georges Lannes | |||
| Le petit moineau de Paris | Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès was a French actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1920s and early 1930s... |
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| Le roi de la vitesse | Henri Diamant-Berger | |||
| Le roi de Paris | Charles Maudru | |||
| Le taxi 313 X 7 | Pierre Colombier Pierre Colombier -Selected filmography:Director* Charlemagne * School for Coquettes... |
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| Le vol | Robert Péguy Robert Péguy Robert Péguy was a French film director best known for his films of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed some 30 films between 1910 and 1946. His career peaked in the 1930s.- External links :... |
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| Les Rantzau | Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès was a French actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1920s and early 1930s... |
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| Mandrin Mandrin A mandrin is a metal guide for flexible catheters. It is a stiff wire or stylet inserted into the soft catheter and gives it shape and firmness while passing through a hollow tubular structure. It is sometimes called a mandrel, although a mandrel may refer to other types of instruments as well.... |
Henri Fescourt Henri Fescourt Henri Fescourt was a French film director. He directed some 40 films in his career.- Filmography:* 1912 : Un vol a été commis* 1912 : Le Petit restaurant de l'impasse Canin... |
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| Nène Nene Nene may refer to:*River Nene, a river in England*Rolls-Royce Nene, a jet engine*Nene , also called Nēnē and Hawaiian Goose, Branta sandvicensis, a rare goose*Nene , a Seminole Indian word meaning "street"... |
Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s.... |
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| Par-dessus le mur | Pierre Colombier Pierre Colombier -Selected filmography:Director* Charlemagne * School for Coquettes... |
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| PARIS QUI DORT Paris Qui Dort The Crazy Ray is a 1925 French science fiction comedy short film directed by René Clair. The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected by the ray begin to loot Paris. The film's... |
René Clair René Clair René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist... |
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| Petit Ange et son pantin | Luitz Morat | |||
| Petit hôtel à louer | Pière Colombier | |||
| Pulcinella Pulcinella Pulcinella, ; often called Punch or Punchinello in English, Polichinelle in French, is a classical character that originated in the commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.... |
Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès Gaston Roudès was a French actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1920s and early 1930s... |
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| SOIRÉE MONDAINE | Pierre Colombier Pierre Colombier -Selected filmography:Director* Charlemagne * School for Coquettes... |
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| Souvent femme varie | Jean Legrand | |||
| Survivre | Édouard Chinot | |||
| Terreur | Edward José Edward José Edward José was a Belgian film director and actor of the silent era.He directed 42 films between 1915 and 1925... |
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| Un bon petit diable | René Leprince René Leprince René Leprince was an early French silent film director best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.In film, Leprince began as an actor in 1908 and dabbled with directing. In 1911 he moved into directing permanently and directed some 70 films between 1908 and 1929.- External links :... |
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External links
- French films of 1923 at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- 1920s film at Filmsdefrance.com
- Films by year at Cinema-francais.fr