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Tag Archives: Abel Gance
End of the World AKA La fin du monde (1931) Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance
The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Read More »
The Wheel AKA La roue (1923) Abel Gance, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma Read More »
I Accuse AKA J’accuse (1919) Abel Gance, Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife Read More »
Blind Venus AKA Vénus aveugle (1941) Abel Gance, Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant, Henri Guisol
A Clarisse is a cabaret singer, diagnosed that will remain blind in one or two years. It will break with her lover, Madère into thinking that no longer loves you … Read More »
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
Tower of Nesle (1955) Abel Gance, Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
The Battle of Austerlitz (1960) Abel Gance, Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale
Another of Napoleon’s adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz Read More »
Napoleon (1927) Abel Gance, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays Read More »
Cyrano et d’Artagnan (1964) Abel Gance, José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d’Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France. Read More »
Lucrezia Borgia (1935) Abel Gance, Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Drama, History, Romance
After the advice of his main adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to try to unify the nation so as to become even stronger. Read More »
Le capitaine Fracasse / Captain Fracasse (1943) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Assia Noris, Jean Weber, Drama
A destitute baron joins a troupe of travelling actors. Read More »
Un grand amour de Beethoven / Beethoven’s Great Love (1936) Abel Gance, Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Biography, Drama, Music
1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick’s love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that decision, but by then he and Thérèse are engaged. Read More »
J’accuse! (1938) Abel Gance, Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, War
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war.
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