Cast: Mévisto

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Mévisto · Jean Jacquinet · Henry Krauss · Sylvie

Synopsis Based on Emile Zola’s novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers’ strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Henri Desfontaines · Marguerite Brésil · Alexandre Arquillière · Jacques Grétillat

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Mévisto · Andrée Pascal · Paul Capellani · Louis Ravet

Synopsis This is the story of the most remarkable case of mistaken identity and the most terrible miscarriage of justice ever written in the judicial annals of the world. Roussel, a wealthy merchant, has the misfortune to have in Gasnier, a...

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Paul Escoffier · Mévisto · Marie-Louise Derval · Georges Dorival

Synopsis The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner...

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Henry Krauss · Stacia Napierkowska · René Alexandre · Claude Garry

Synopsis Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy street dancer, arouses the desire of men, especially of Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame. The latter asks Quasimodo, the deaf and deformed bell-ringer of the cathedral, to kidnap the girl. Quasimodo, who has been...

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Josette Andriot · Lucien Bataille · Charles Krauss · Henri Gouget

Synopsis Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Josette Andriot, who wore a characteristic...