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Films Albatros
Films Albatros was a French film production company established in 1922. It was formed by a group of White émigré, White Russian exiles who had been forced to flee following the 1917 Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. Initially the firm's personnel consisted mainly of Russian exiles, but over time French actors and directors were employed by the company. Its operations continued until the late 1930s. History Faced with increasingly difficult working conditions in Russia after the revolution of 1917, the film producer Joseph N. Ermolieff, Joseph Ermolieff decided to move his operations to Paris where he had connections with the Pathé company. Arriving in 1920 with a group of close associates, Ermolieff took over a studio in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Montreuil-sous-Bois in the eastern suburbs of Paris and began making films through his company Ermolieff-Cinéma. His co-founder of the company was Alexandre Kamenka, another Russian exile, and when in 1922 Ermoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Production
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casting, pre-production, shooting, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and an exhibition. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world. It uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Although filmmaking originally involved the use of film, most film productions are now digital. Today, filmmaking refers to the process of crafting an audio-visual story commercially for distribution or broadcast. Production stages Film production consists of five major stages: * Development: Ideas for the film are created, rights to existing intellectual properties are purchased, etc., and the screenplay is written. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Spaak
Charles Spaak (25 May 1903 – 4 March 1975) was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s. He was the son of the dramatist and poet Paul Spaak, the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak, and the father of the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès Spaak. Career Charles Spaak was born in Brussels in 1903 into a prominent Belgian family. In 1928 he moved to Paris and took a post as secretary to the film-maker Jacques Feyder, who then asked him to work on the adaptation of a stage play for his film '' Les Nouveaux Messieurs''. He also worked as head of publicity for the production company Albatros. He went on to write the screenplays for Feyder's most important films of the 1930s: '' Le Grand Jeu'', ''Pension Mimosas'', and '' La Kermesse héroïque''. Spaak was also in demand to work with other leading directors. During the 1930s he worked with Julien Duvivier on '' La Bandera'' (1935) and '' La Belle Équipe'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Colombier
Pierre Colombier (1896–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Director * ''The Marriage of Rosine'' (1926) * '' His Best Client'' (1932) * ''Charlemagne'' (1933) * '' School for Coquettes'' (1935) * ''La Marraine de Charley'' (1935) (''Charley's Aunt'') * '' The King'' (1936) * ''The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * ''The Kings of Sport'' (1937) * '' Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * ''Latin Quarter The Latin Quarter of Paris (french: Quartier latin, ) is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne. Known for its student life, lively atmosphere, and bistro ...'' (1939) References External links * 1896 births 1958 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters People from Compiègne 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Rimsky
Nicolas Rimsky (russian: Николай Алекса́ндрович Римский; born Nikolai Alexandrovich Kurmashov; 18 February 1886 – 5 September 1941) was a Russian-French film actor, director and writer. He was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1931, he directed and starred in ''Pas sur la bouche'' ('' Not on the Mouth''), based on an operetta by André Barde. In ''The Happy Death'' (''L'heureuse mort'', 1924, with a screenplay by Rimsky from the story by Countess Baillehache) he plays an unsuccessful and unpleasant playwright who suddenly becomes much more successful when he is believed drowned (and also plays his brother who turns up for the funeral). Linda Williams, who calls Rimsky a "great comedian", praises his performance as "a gem of comic timing". Leonard Maltin said the film's "cynical take on the nature of celebrity makes it seem quite modern". He also starred in comedy ''Because I Love You'' (''Parce Que Je T'Aime'', 1929) as a professor who marries his secreta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Double Amour
''Le Double Amour'' ''(Double Love)'' is a 1925 French melodrama film directed by Jean Epstein and produced by the Films Albatros production company. Plot Saint Blaise sur mer, 1904: Countess Laure Maresco sings for a charitable event at the Casino. She is told by her lover Jacques Prémont-Solène, son of a famous automobile manufacturer, that he has lost at Baccarat the money of the charity event that she had entrusted to him. When he threatens to commit suicide, she tells him that she will take the blame for the theft. Thanks to Baron de Curgis, a rich man in love with her, the scandal is avoided but she is ruined. In Paris, Jacques' father refuses to give him money and sends him to the United States to show what he can do by himself. Jacques writes her a letter confessing the theft and informing her that his father has forced him to go to America to start a new life. She considers suicide in front of the sea, but the fact that she is expecting a baby from Jacques gives her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Film
The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *June 26: Charlie Chaplin's ''The Gold Rush'' premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll *September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens. *November 5: MGM's war drama film ''The Big Parade'' is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States. *December 30: MGM's biblical epic '' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $ million when adjusted for inflation) *Hong Shen publishes the film script ''Mrs. Shentu'' in the Shanghai magazine ''Eastern Miscellany''. It is never filmed, but is con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lion Of The Moguls
''Le Lion des Mogols'' ''(The Lion of the Moguls)'' is a 1924 French drama film directed by Jean Epstein. It is the first film that he directed for the Films Albatros production company. Plot In a sacred city of Tibet, the cruel Grand Khan, who has been usurping power for 15 years, orders that Zemgali, a young woman loved by Prince Roundhito-Sing, be taken to his palace. The Prince frees her but she is recaptured and he must flee the country. On the boat which takes him to France, he falls in love with film star Anna and she convinces him to become an actor and play with her in a film. In Paris, the Prince is cast opposite Anna in a film about his own story. Anna's lover Morel, a banker who produces the film, is becoming more and more jealous and takes advantage of the Prince's naivety to make him sign a bad check for a large sum of money. To disarm Morel's jealousy Anna tells him she doesn't love the Prince, who is devastated when he overhears their conversation. The Prince g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kean (1924 Film)
''Kean, ou Désordre et génie'' (also known as ''Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers'') is a 1924 French drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff, and starring Ivan Mosjoukine as the actor Edmund Kean. It is an adaptation of the 1836 play ''Kean'' by Alexandre Dumas. Cast *Ivan Mosjoukine as Edmund Kean * Nathalie Lissenko as La comtesse Elena de Koefeld *Nicolas Koline as Solomon *Otto Detlefsen as Prince of Wales *Mary Odette as Anna Damby *Kenelm Foss Kenelm Foss (13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director. Early life and education He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Par ... as Lord Mewill *Pauline Po as Ophélie / Juliette References External links * *''Edmund Kean''at silentera.com French historical drama films French silent feature films French black-and-white films French films based on plays Films based on works by Alexandre Dumas Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 In Film
The following is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top eight 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures. * D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company. *April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) *November 15 – In Los Angeles, director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst. *Loews Theatres acquires the 4,000 seat Capitol Theatre in New York City becoming the flagship of the theatre chain and site of many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Brasier Ardent
''Le Brasier ardent'' is a 1923 French film directed by Ivan Mosjoukine. It combines elements of comedy, mystery, romance and psychological drama. The title has been variously translated into English as ''The Blazing Inferno'', ''The Burning Crucible'', ''The Burning Brazier'', ''The Burning Cauldron'', and ''Burning Embers''. Plot A woman, known only as Elle ("She"), has a nightmare in which she encounters a man chained to a tree above a blazing pyre into which he tries to pull her by the hair, an elegant gentleman in evening dress who pursues her into an opium den full of dazed women, a bishop who instructs her to return to her home, and a ragged beggar who attempts to embrace her before stabbing himself. Upon waking she realises that they each had the features of Z, a detective and master of disguise whose memoirs she has been reading in bed. Her wealthy husband, whom she married after he had saved her from drowning, is concerned about her mental state and her diminishing affe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Mystery (1923 Film)
''La Maison du mystère'' (English: ''The House of Mystery'') is a French silent serial film directed by Alexandre Volkoff for the Albatros film company. It was made during 1921 and 1922 and was first shown in 1923. It was co-written by and starred Ivan Mosjoukine. Plot Julien Villandrit is the owner of the estate of Les Basses-Bruyères and its textile factory, where the manager is his childhood friend Corradin. Julien marries his neighbour Régine, unaware that Corradin also loves her. Julien is sent to gaol for a murder actually committed by Corradin. The only witness to the truth is the woodsman Rudeberg and Corradin buys his silence by paying for the education of his son Pascal. Julien's struggle to clear his name and to rescue Régine and their daughter Christiane from Corradin's scheming extends over many years and faces many setbacks. Cast *Ivan Mosjoukine as Julien Villandrit *Charles Vanel as Henri Corradin *Hélène Darly as Régine de Bettigny *Francine Mussey as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Film
The following is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top seven films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events *April 4 – Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. incorporated in the United States. *April 15 – Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers. *Henry Roussel's ''Les Opprimés'' is released, introducing mattes (painted by W. Percy Day) to French cinema. *October 16 – Brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney establish the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (later to be known as Walt Disney Productions). Notable films released in 1923 American films unless stated otherwise A *''Adam's Rib'', directed by Cecil B. DeMille *''The Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz)'', directed by E. A. Dupont, starring Henny Porten – (Germany) *''Ashes of Vengeance'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
