Catherine Hessling

Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she once again comes up against a wolf. This time around the big bad wolf has become a lecherous tramp who keeps stalking the girl trying to wolf her down ... in his own way of course.

부유한 집안에서 자란 시인 장과 그의 하인 조셉은 입대를 앞두고 있다. 그런데 두 사람은 우연히 같은 부대에서 만나고, 군대의 엄격한 질서에 익숙하지 않은 장과 매사에 부주의한 행동으로 사고를 치는 조셉은 이런저런 소동에 휘말린다.

성냥을 팔기 위해 추운 겨울 날 거리로 나온 소녀가 성냥불로 몸을 녹이면서 환영을 보다 죽는다는 안데르센의 단편동화 "성냥팔이 소녀"를 원작으로 한 무성영화이다. 르누아르의 아내 카트린 헤슬링이 소녀 역을 맡았다. 장난감 가게의 꿈 시퀀스가 아름다운 흑백 무성영화

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women and the greed of men.

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie, with music for the audio version of 1930 by Darius Milhaud. Only one original copy of this tragic story and impressionistic. The film tells the story of Lili ( Frau Catherine Hessling ), a 16 year old orphan who has lost her whole family but has retained her purity and innocence. Alas, a terrible doom awaits this optimistic child: in the slums of Paris she will meet a man who will lead her into prostitution.

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

르누아르가 존경해마지 않았던 에밀 졸라의 원작 소설을 각색한 장편 무성영화. 르누아르의 아내인 카트린 에슬랭이 주인공 나나 역을 맡았으며, "칼리가리 박사의 밀실"의 베르너 크라우스가 상대역인 무파 백작 역을 맡았다. 원작과 배우의 지명도에 힘입어 상업적 성공을 확신한 르누아르는 대규모 예산을 투여하여 를 제작했지만, 결과적으로는 흥행에 참패, 아버지의 그림을 팔아 청구서를 갚아야만 했다. 하지만 "나나"의 서정성, 그리고 희극과 비극이 교묘하게 어우러진 분위기는 많은 비평가들의 찬사를 받았다.

Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and happiness.