French films of 1927
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A list of film
s produced in France
in 1927
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s produced in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 1927
1927 in film
-Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...
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1927
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| 1927 1927 in film -Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to... |
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| Antoinette Sabrier | ||||
| L' Invitation au voyage | ||||
| Celle qui domine | Léon Mathot Léon Mathot Léon Mathot was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918.... and Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di... |
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| Chantage Chantage Chantage is a London based chamber choir conducted by James Davey. Drawing singers from all over the country and all walks of life, the choir won the 2006 Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition.... |
Henri Debain Henri Debain Henri Debain was a French film actor.He first appeared in Le Petit café in 1919 and acted in over 25 films between then and 1956.He directed three films including the acclaimed Mephisto in 1931.... |
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| Un chapeau de paille d'Italie | ||||
| Cousine de France | 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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| Croquette Croquette A croquette is a small fried food roll containing, usually as main ingredients, mashed potatoes, and/or ground meat , shellfish, fish, vegetables, and soaked white bread, egg, onion, spices and herbs, wine, milk, beer or any of the combination thereof, sometimes with a filling, often encased in... |
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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| Dans l'ombre du harem | Léon Mathot Léon Mathot Léon Mathot was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918.... and André Liabel |
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| Duel Duel A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two individuals, with matched weapons in accordance with agreed-upon rules.Duels in this form were chiefly practised in Early Modern Europe, with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period especially among... |
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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| Éducation de Prince Éducation de Prince Éducation de Prince was a silent French film released in 1927. The French title has been spelled slightly differently over the years. The known English title is Education of a Prince. The director was Henri Diamant-Berger. The known cast included Edna Purviance, Pierre Batcheff and Jean Dax... |
Henri Diamant-Berger | Edna Purviance Edna Purviance Edna Purviance was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over thirty films with Chaplin.-Early life:... |
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| Marquitta | ||||
| La Proie du vent | ||||
| Sur un air de Charleston | ||||
| Le Vertige Le Vertige -Production:Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Robert Mallet-Stevens contributed to the set and costume design for the film.-External links:... |
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| Napoléon | Abel Gance Abel Gance Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:... |
Albert Dieudonné Albert Dieudonné Albert Dieudonné was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist.Dieudonné was born in Paris, France and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908 for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, with musical score by Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1924, he directed the film drama, "Catherine"... |
Biography / War | 3 wins (1981) |
| 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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| Le Cinéma au service de l'histoire | ||||
| En rade En rade En rade is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. It first appeared as a serial in the magazine La revue indépendante between November 1886 and April 1887. It was published in book form on 26 April, 1887 by Tresse et Stock... |
Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a... |
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| Fleur d’amour | Marcel Vandal | |||
| L’île d’amour | Jean Durand , Berthe Dagmar | |||
| L'Occident | 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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| La Cousine Bette | Max De Rieux | |||
| La Glace a trois faces | 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 Glu | 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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| La grande envolée | René Plaissety | |||
| La grande épreuve | Alexandre Ryder Alexandre Ryder Alexandre Ryder was a Polish born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950.... and André Dugès |
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| La madone des sleepings | Marco de Gastyne Marco de Gastyne Marc Henri Benoist better known as Marco de Gastyne was a French painter, illustrator and later film director of more than a dozen films.... and Maurice Gleize |
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| La maison sans amour | Emilien Charpentier | |||
| La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d’Arc fille de Lorraine | Marco De Gastyne Marco de Gastyne Marc Henri Benoist better known as Marco de Gastyne was a French painter, illustrator and later film director of more than a dozen films.... |
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| La petite chocolatière | René Hervil | |||
| La petite marchande d'allumettes | Jean Renoir Jean Renoir Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s... |
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| La sirène des Tropiques | Henri Etiévant, Mario Nalpas | |||
| La valse de l'adieu | Henry Roussell Henry Roussell Henry Roussell was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.He starred in well over 40 films between 1912 and 1939.- External links :... |
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| La Vestale du Gange | 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 chasseur de chez Maxim’s | Nicolas Rimsky Nicolas Rimsky Nicolas Rimsky was an Russian-born French film actor, director and writer. He was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1931, he directed and starred in Pas sur la bouche , based on an operetta by André Barde.-External links:*... , Roger Lion |
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| Le chauffeur de mademoiselle | Henri Chomette | |||
| Le manoir de la peur | 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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| Le mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans is a Belgian play by Fernand Wicheler and Frantz Fonson. It was first published in 1910.... |
Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960... |
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| le Baiser qui tue | Dr. T. Malachowski , Jean Choux Jean Choux Jean Choux was a French film director and producer.-Filmography:*1925 : La Vocation d'André Carel*1926 : La Terre qui meurt*1927 : Le Baiser qui tue*1928 : Espionnage ou la guerre sans armes*1929 : Chacun porte sa croix... |
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| Le bonheur du jour | Gaston Ravel | |||
| Le mystère de la Tour Eiffel | Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960... |
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| Le Passager | 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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| Le prince Jean | René Hervil | |||
| La Reve | 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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| Le sous-marin de cristal | Marcel Vandal | |||
| Le Train de 8H 47 | Georges Pallu | |||
| Les cœurs héroïques | Georges Pallu | |||
| Les transatlantiques | Pierre Colombier Pierre Colombier -Selected filmography:Director* Charlemagne * School for Coquettes... |
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| Madame Récamier | Gaston Ravel | |||
| Minuit… Place Pigalle | René Hervil | |||
| Pardonnée | Jean Cassagne | |||
| Paris-New York-Paris | 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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| Poker d’as | 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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| Sables | Dimitri Kirsanoff Dimitri Kirsanoff Dimitri Kirsanoff was an early filmmaker, considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film. He is known for his inexpensively made experimental films.-Early life:... |
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| Six et demi, onze | 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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| Un chapeau de paille d’Italie | 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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| Une java | Jean de Size | |||
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Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a... |
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External links
- French films of 1927 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