André Antoine
2021Ceux de chez-nous
Sacha Guitry
André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt
With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
Those of Our Land
L'Arlésienne
André Antoine
Marthe Fabris, Berthe Jalabert
The final film of André Antoine.Based on the play by Alphonse Daudet. In the nineteenth century, in Camargue, the charming Frédéri, young son of wealthy farmers, is madly in love with a beautiful Arlesienne and wants only to marry her. But the family learns that she has had an affair with a herdsman. Frédéri is deeply affected by this revelation that destroys all his dreams.
L'Arlésienne
Les Travailleurs de la mer
Léonard Antoine, André Antoine
Armand Tallier, Marc Gérard
Adapted from Hugo's eponym novel, the story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whomever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows both his physical trials and tribulations.
Les Travailleurs de la mer
L'Hirondelle et la Mésange
André Antoine
Maguy Deliac, Pierre Alcover
Herr Pierre Van Groot owns two barges. Van Groot, his wife, and his sister-in-law navigate along the north channels between Belgium and France. Herr Pierre transports construction material in his barges but he earns extra francs trafficking in diamonds, which he hides in the boat’s rudder. Pierre engages a new first mate, Michel, who gets wise to the diamond smuggling. The film was shot in 1920, but only shown once in its 80 minute entirety at a private screening in 1924.
The Swallow and the Titmouse
La Terre
André Antoine
Armand Bour, René Alexandre
As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family.
La Terre
Le Coupable
André Antoine
Romuald Joubé, Sylvie
At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the young man's pregnant mother, and the unwed poor thing had to fight against a hostile world.
Le Coupable
Quatre-vingt-treize
Léonard Antoine, Albert Capellani
Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, Paul Capellani
In Britain, during the revolution, the nephew of the Marquis de Lantenac, Gawain (P. Capellani) befriends Cimourdain (H. Krauss), a priest who follows the precepts of the Revolution. During the Terror, the Marquis went into exile in England while his nephew is a soldier in the Revolutionary Army ...
Ninety-Three
Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
André Antoine
Huguette Duflos, Catherine Fonteney
The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to the Marquis, who decides to allocate old Stamply with the use of a corner of his manor. Hélène de la Seiglière, the Marquis's daughter, takes care of the old man. But this one, devastated by death of his son, buried under the ice of the Berezina, dies. Some time later, three persons come to live in the manor: M. de Paubert, his son Raoul, and Destournelles, a crafty, ruthlessly ambitious lawyer. De Paubert hopes to marry his son to Hélène de la Seiglière and might well achieve his aim but for the unexpected return of Bernard Stamply, who has escaped death miraculously. He gets to know Helène and the two young people fall in love with each other.
Mademoiselle de La Seiglière