Cast: Jaque Catelain

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Pierre Renoir · Lise Delamare · Louis Jouvet · Léon Larive

Synopsis Another project inspired by the success of the brief Popular Front government, LA MARSEILLAISE stars Pierre Renoir as Louis XVI. Told from the point of view of the common people, Jean Renoir's film traces the progress of the French Revolution...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Jaque Catelain · Léonid Walter de Malte · Philippe Hériat · Fred Kellerman

Synopsis A young scientist, Einar Norsen, has fallen in love with the world famous singer Claire Lescot. She of course rejects his mad protestations of love, and, heart-broken, Einar resolves to kill himself. The scientist then decides to use his discovery...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Ivan Mozzhukhin · Marcelle Pradot · Michel Simon · Lois Moran

Synopsis Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Ève Francis · Jaque Catelain · Marcelle Pradot · Philippe Hériat

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Gabriel Signoret · Ève Francis · Marcelle Pradot · Jaque Catelain

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Jaque Catelain · Roger Karl · Charles Boyer · Philippe Hériat

Synopsis Nolff, a fisherman on the coast of Brittany, has aspirations that his son Michel will follow in his career path. However, Michel, a young rebel has different ideas and wastes his days and nights with his dissolute friends in the...

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Michael Bohnen · Huguette Duflos · Paul Hartmann · Jaque Catelain

Synopsis On January 10, 1926, fifteen years after the premiere of the opera “Der Rosenkavalier”, a second Rosenkavalier premiere was staged in the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, Germany: this time it was a film, accompanied by Richard Strauss’s opera music –...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Marcelle Pradot · Jaque Catelain · Paul Capellani · Claire Prélia

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Gaby Morlay · Charles Boyer · Paulette Dubost · Jean Toulout

Direction Jean de Limur

Cast Marie Bell · Arletty · Henri Rollan · Jean Worms

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Yvonne Printemps · Pierre Fresnay · Junie Astor · André Lefaur

Synopsis Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war.

Direction Robert Wohlmuth

Cast Valerie Boothby · Jaque Catelain · Marion Gerth · Ferdinand Martini

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Suzanne Desprès · Paul Capellani · Jaque Catelain · Marcelle Pradot

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Pierre Richard-Willm · Käthe von Nagy · Jaque Catelain · Kissa Kouprine

Synopsis In the Kingdom of Iraq in 1935, British troops are stationed to protect the convoy route to India from rebel incursions. After spending three years in under-cover activities in the region, Lieutenant Brent, a British officer, has fallen under suspicion...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier · Paolo Moffa

Cast Micheline Presle · Georges Marchal · Marcel Herrand · Jaque Catelain

Synopsis In the town of Pompeii, 79AD, a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him...

Direction Léonce Perret

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

Synopsis 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 is murdered by his own brother (Georges Vaultier). Aurora goes...

Direction Jaque Catelain

Cast Jaque Catelain · Lois Moran · Jean Murat · Claire Prélia

Synopsis Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it deserves. When the boss’ unwanted advances on the wife are refused, he taunts a lion...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Emmy Lynn · Jaque Catelain · Roger Karl · Claire Prélia

Synopsis Based on a play by Charles Mere, the 1926 French production Le Vertige was released in the U.S. two years later as The Living Image: or, The Lady of Petrograd. The film begins with the overthrow of the Czar during...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Claude-France Aïssé · Jaque Catelain · Baron Byron Khun de Prorak · Byron Kuhn

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Betty Balfour · Jaque Catelain · Roger Karl · André Nox

Synopsis Ludivine Bucaille stupidly wishes that Leherg and his son Delphin both die at sea. Amazingly, Leherg actually is lost at sea but his son somehow survives. His mother subsequently dies of sorrow. Remorseful, Ludivine gets her parents to take Delphin...