Abel Gance
Directing
Born October 25, 1889 in Paris, France
Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927). He was born in Paris in 1889. In 1909, he acted in his first film. He also wrote scenarios, and often sold them to Gaumont. During this period he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, fatal at the time, but he recovered. In 1911, with some friends he established a production company, Le Film Français, and began directing his own films.
Filmography
Abel Gance et son Napoléon
Self (archival footage)
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Bonaparte et la révolution
St. Just (archive footage)
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
Self - Interviewee
Omnibus
Self
Marie Tudor
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
Self
The Battle of Austerlitz
Magirama
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I Accuse! [Magirama]
Cinépanorama
Self
Tower of Lust
Queen Margot
14 juillet 1953
Captain Fracasse
Blind Venus
Four Flights to Love
Louise
The Woman Thief
J'Accuse
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Lucrezia Borgia
The Queen and the Cardinal
Napoléon Bonaparte
Saint-Just
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Camille
Poliche
The Ironmaster
Mater Dolorosa
The End of the World
Jean Novalic
Around the End of the World
Self
The Fall of the House of Usher
Bar Customer
Autour de Napoléon
self
Napoleon
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Au secours !
Around The Wheel
Self
La Roue
Self
J'Accuse
The Tenth Symphony
The Zone of Death
Barberousse
The Torture of Silence
The Right to Life
Deadly Gas
The Madness of Dr. Tube
The Mask of Horror
A Tragic Love of Mona Lisa
La Digue
The Death of the Duke of Enghien in 1804