Antonin Artaud
Birthday: 1896-09-04
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antonin Artaud licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
View Movie
Mater Dolorosa
One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessive...
View Movie
Wooden Crosses
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he ...
View Movie
Napoleon
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...
View Movie
L'enfant de ma soeur
Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who ...
View Movie
Verdun, memories of history
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Ve...
View Movie
Sidonie Panache
In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her love...
View Movie
Lucrezia Borgia
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, ...
View Movie
The Threepenny Opera
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German versio...
View Movie
Graziella
During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziell...
View Movie
The Torture of Silence
Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has mo...
View Movie
Mathusalem
Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the...
View Movie
Tarakanova
Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéh...
View Movie
News Item
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-expos...
View Movie
Crimson Dynasty
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Lan...
View Movie
Surcouf
Based on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Sur...
View Movie
Bonaparte et la révolution
Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent origi...
View Movie
L'Argent
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock ...
View Movie
Le Juif Errant
Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682,...
View Movie
La Femme d'une nuit
A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spend...
View Movie
Liliom
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a...
View Movie
Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud
A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the ...
View Movie
Verdun: Visions of History
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German ...
View Movie
Around the End of the World
A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde"....
View Movie
Coup de feu à l'aube
A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin po...
View Movie
The Child King
An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the ...
View Movie
Imag-en cada verso
A BLACK AND WHITE FILM. A FLASH OF SOME COLOR. IMAGE IS IMAGINATION....
View Movie