Movies: Abel Gance

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in America, returns and wants to hasten the financier's death....

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance....

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film...

A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse"....

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost....

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film....

Le périscope is a 1928 film...

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not love him, and accepts a seductive airplane pilot who proposes to her. One day, she discovers that the funny man...

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film...

The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema....

Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production....

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Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance's creation, Polyvision and Sonore Perspective, which used three screens to present a drama of simu...

French documentary short film....

Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short...

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928...