''Illusions'' is a 1930 French
silent comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Lucien Mayrargue and starring
Pierre Batcheff,
Mary Serta and
Esther Kiss. It was released at a time when
sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...
s were becoming dominant, and received bad reviews.
[Powrie & Rebillard p.172]
Cast
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Pierre Batcheff
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Mary Serta
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Esther Kiss
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Gaston Jacquet
Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet (14 August 1883 – 28 January 1970) was a French actor.
Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland.
Selected filmography
* ''Les Trois Mousquetaires'' (1921)
* ''Th ...
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Jean Joris
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Pola Illéry
Paula Iliescu Gibson (18 December 1909 – 19 October 1993) known professionally as Pola Illery, was a Romanian-American actress and singer, best known for her appearances in early French film, and of the latter after emigrating to the United Sta ...
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Ninon Bernard
References
Bibliography
* Powrie, Phil & Rebillard, Éric. ''Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema''. Edinburgh University Press, 2009
External links
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1930 films
French silent feature films
1930s French-language films
Silent French comedy films
1930 comedy films
French black-and-white films
1930s French films
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