Antonin Artaud
Know for: Acting
Born: 1896-09-04
Place of birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...
Mater Dolorosa (1933)
One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...
Wooden Crosses (1932)
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying,...
Napoleon (1927)
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...
L'enfant de ma soeur (1933)
Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become...
Faubourg Montmartre (1931)
Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
Verdun, memories of history (1931)
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
Sidonie Panache (1934)
In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.
Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
Graziella (1926)
During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella. They are separated when he must return to...
The Torture of Silence (1917)
Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your...
Mathusalem (1927)
Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five...
Tarakanova (1930)
Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord....
News Item (1923)
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages...
Crimson Dynasty (1935)
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is...
Surcouf (1925)
Based on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who...
Bonaparte et la révolution (1972)
Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both...
L'Argent (1928)
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Le Juif Errant (1926)
Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a...
La Femme d'une nuit (1930)
A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the...
Liliom (1934)
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the...
Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud (1977)
A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and...
Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Verdun: Visions of History (1928)
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
Around the End of the World (1930)
A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".
Coup de feu à l'aube (1932)
A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader....
The Child King (1923)
An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his...
Despair (1978)
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Exhalación: Vida y muerte de De La Puríssima (2019)
The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show,...
Artaud and the Tarahumaras (1996)
This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras...
A Look at Madness (1962)
The daily life of patients and the work of doctors, including Dr. François Tosquelles, at the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban in...
Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud (1977)
A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and...
Bajazet - Considering the Theatre and the Plague (2019)
Frank Castorf has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it...