Cast: Renée Sylvaire

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Albert Decoeur · Paulette Noizeux · Henry Roussel · Renée Sylvaire

Plot Hortense Fauvel, the wife of a village postmaster, takes Aimée, a young shepherdess, under her wing. Aimée soon becomes engaged to François, the Fauvel’s loyal servant. At a fête hosted...

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Pauline Polaire · Henry Roussel · César · André Dubosc

Plot One of the earliest surviving films of French-American director Maurice Tourneur, this discovered three-reel melodrama features Polaire in the title role, an impoverished waif turned circus performer. She is adopted...

Direction Emile Chautard · Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Edmond Duquesne · Germaine Dermoz · Roger Karl · Henri Gouget

Plot Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine’s father doesn’t approve of their relationship.

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Charles Krauss · André Liabel · Marcel Vibert · Cécile Guyon

Plot In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair’s new series of social dramas. For Au pays...

Direction Léonce Perret

Cast Huguette Duflos · Jaque Catelain · Georges Vaultier · André Liabel

Plot To fulfill her Father’s wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He prepares to leave for the Congo but...

Direction Emile Chautard

Cast Damorès · Cécile Didier · Maria Fromet · Renée Sylvaire

Plot While cleaning her gloves which she was to wear at a ball, Cecilia meets with an accident and becomes blind. Her slim resources are soon exhausted, and being unable to...