''Le Vertige'' is a 1926 French film directed by

Marcel l'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...

, who wrote the screenplay based upon the play by Charles Méré.

Cast

Emmy Lynn Emmy Lynn (born Emily Leigh; 1889–1978) was a Spanish-born French actress. Lynn was born Emily Leigh in Barcelona to an English father who worked at the British Consulate and a half-Spanish and half-German mother. She arrived in Paris at the a ...

as Natacha Svirsky * Jaque Catelain as Henri de Cassel * Roger Karl as General Svirsky * Claire Prélia as Madame de Cassel

Production

Robert The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

and

Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...

* and

Robert Mallet-Stevens Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) was an influential French architect and designer. Early life Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris in a house called Maison-Laffitte (designed by François Mansart in the 17th century). H ...

contributed to the set and costume design for the film.

References

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* 1926 films French black-and-white films French silent feature films French films based on plays 1920s French films {{1920s-France-film-stub