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Lumière & Company

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

6.2

1h 28m

1995

“Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors”

Synopsis

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Director

Francis Girod

David Lynch

Michael Haneke

Vicente Aranda

Claude Lelouch

John Boorman

Costa-Gavras

Alain Corneau

Spike Lee

Wim Wenders

Abbas Kiarostami

Cédric Klapisch

Lasse Hallström

Raymond Depardon

Theo Angelopoulos

Merzak Allouache

Ismail Merchant

Gabriel Axel

Peter Greenaway

Sarah Moon

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Jerry Schatzberg

Zhang Yimou

Claude Miller

Arthur Penn

Andrei Konchalovsky

Nadine Trintignant

Liv Ullmann

Régis Wargnier

Jacques Rivette

Bigas Luna

Jaco Van Dormael

Yoshishige Yoshida

Patrice Leconte

Hugh Hudson

Gaston Kaboré

Fernando Trueba

James Ivory

Youssef Chahine

Lucian Pintilie

Trailer

DramaDocumentary

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Cast & Crew

Jeff Alperi

as Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

Romane Bohringer

Romane Bohringer

as (segment "Claude Miller")

Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Ticky Holgado

Ticky Holgado

as (segment "Claude Lelouch")

Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

as (segment "John Boorman")

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

as (segment "John Boorman")

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

as (segment "John Boorman")

Sven Nykvist

Sven Nykvist

as (segment "Liv Ullman")

Lena Olin

Lena Olin

as (segment "Lasse Hallström")

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