L'Argent

Screening
Autour de L'Argent

Part of Recovered Treasures: Great Films from World Archives
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 6:00 p.m.

Dir. Jean Dréville. 1929, 40 mins.

Marcel L’Herbier commissioned this fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary about the production of L’Argent. Made in the poetic style of its subject, the film chronicles the remarkable scale of the production and the sheer inventiveness behind its spectacular camerawork.

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