Edmond van Daële

Edmond van Daële

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Edmond van Daële

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Sending of Flowers
Verger
Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happiness in favor of blind ambition. After carrying on a romance by correspondence with beautiful young Suzanne (Micheline Francey), Delmet is on the verge of marrying the girl. Instead, he allows himself to be talked out of leaving France to further his own career, with disastrous results for all concerned.
Adieu Léonard
Engraver
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
The Emigrant
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
The Puritan
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism (IMDb).
The Phantom Gondola
A femme fatale falls in love with a Venetian count, implacable enemy of Selim, who pursues his sister with his diligence. This one makes stop and condemn to death the count who made an attempt on his life. Then he offers the woman her father's salvation in exchange for her favors. A snake kills him, the count is shot and the woman finally takes the veil.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Robespierre
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Behold the Man
Gerson
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
Maria Chapdelaine
Le Docteur
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Le Tunnel
Le contremaître
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
Scent of the Woman in Black
Robert Darzac
The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
Dance house
Benito
Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Robert Darzac
Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from the inside, no one can understand how the attacker managed to enter or leave the room. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives on the scene to protect Mathilde and resolve the mystery of the yellow room.
The two worlds
The Shark
Cagliostro
Louis XVI
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
Princesse Mandane
Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.
Madame Récamier
Joseph Fouché
The film displays Madame Récamier 's conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of the Empress's ladies. In revenge for her refusal Napoleon declined to save her husband from ruin.
Sables
La lueur dans les ténèbres
Six and a Half, Eleven
Jérome de Ners
A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a time however, she misses her old life and goes back on the stage - an act which leads her lover to commit suicide. Later the doctor and Marie also meet, and she becomes his mistress. He finds out about his brother's suicide and goes through his artifacts looking for a clue as to what might have been the cause. He finds a photograph of Marie and realizes the truth, which decimates their relationship.
Revelation
Jean-Louis Verdier dit Sirias
A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.
Napoleão
Maximilien Robespierre
Este filme biográfico épico de Napoleão abrange muitas das experiências que moldaram o rápido avanço do líder francês. Desde seus dias de escola até seu voo da Córsega, bem como a Revolução Francesa e o terror, culminando na sua invasão triunfante da Itália em 1797.
Nène
Corbier
Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène."
The Flood
Broc
In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daughter is taken with Alban. When he rejects her, she collapses. Suddenly, the river rises and floods the village. One evening, Margot disapears… This peasant drama, adapted from a novel by André Corthis and shot during an actual flood of the Rhone, was Delluc’s last. The human madness is an echo to nature’s fury, magnified by moving images of a Provence submerged by water and mist.
Cœur fidèle
Little Paul
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Les Roquevillard
Maître Frasne - un notaire
A family of strict magistrates holds firm in protecting one of their members,who commits an error which provokes a storm of outrage.
Fièvre
Militus
Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness.
Narayana
Jacques Hébert
Loosely based on Balzac's novel "La peau de chagrin", the story revolves around a man who steals a small, magical figurine named Narayana.
Le fils de Monsieur Ledoux
Gérard, who grew up without parents, has become a doctor and has made an important medical discovery. But he needs substantial funding. One night he finds a brochure about the life of actress Mariette Ducros, now dead, and her child. Her father, Ledoux, lives in Blois. He is a rich collector. Gérard pretends he is Mariette's child. Mr. et Mrs. Ledoux greet him warmly. Out of shame he confesses the truth to Mrs. Ledoux. When she tells her husband, he decides to go to Gérard's office. He talks to Gérard's patients, mothers who claim his medicine saved their children. Mr. Ledoux realizes he found an adopted son in Gérard.
The Light of the Heart
Director