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J'ACCUSE
VICTOR FRANCEN
(Hold Back the Dawn, Hell and High Water, A Farewell to Arms)
LINE NORO
(Pépé le Moko, Pastoral Symphony, The Lovers of Bras-Mort)
JEAN-MAX
(Pension Mimosas, Criminal Brigade, Satan's Paradise)
PAUL AMIOT
(Orpheus, Le Cercle Rouge, Flesh and the Woman)
Directed by
ABEL GANCE
(Napoleon, The Battle of Austerlitz, Cyrano et d'Artagnan)
Abel Gance would revisit his 1919 epic J'accuse with the 1938 reimagining, this time with sound and a score by his The Woman Thief collaborator Henri Verdun.
YEAR: 1938
GENRE: WAR DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 120 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
J'accuse, director Abel Gance's (Napoleon) indictment of war, is a tale of romance and idealism in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion.
Set against the backdrop of World War I, the idealistic poet Jean Diaz (Victor Francen, A Farewell to Arms), in pursuit of a higher calling, having witnessed the horrors of war, seeks to create a technology that will put an end to future bloodshed.
Jean's hopes for a peaceful resolution are soon dashed when investor Henri Chimax (Jean-Max, Satan's Paradise) appropriates Jean's plans knowing that another world war, looming on the horizon, will profit him financially.
J'accuse features supporting performances by Line Noro (Pépé le Moko), Paul Amiot (Le Cercle Rouge), André Nox (Savage Brigade) and Marie Lou (The Woman Thief).
Directed by Abel Gance, J'accuse (which used his epic 1919 silent screen version as a template) is both a stirring indictment of man's inhumanity to man and an ode to man's capacity for love and compassion.
J'ACCUSE
VICTOR FRANCEN
(Hold Back the Dawn, Hell and High Water, A Farewell to Arms)
LINE NORO
(Pépé le Moko, Pastoral Symphony, The Lovers of Bras-Mort)
JEAN-MAX
(Pension Mimosas, Criminal Brigade, Satan's Paradise)
PAUL AMIOT
(Orpheus, Le Cercle Rouge, Flesh and the Woman)
Directed by
ABEL GANCE
(Napoleon, The Battle of Austerlitz, Cyrano et d'Artagnan)
Abel Gance would revisit his 1919 epic J'accuse with the 1938 reimagining, this time with sound and a score by his The Woman Thief collaborator Henri Verdun.
YEAR: 1938
GENRE: WAR DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 120 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
J'accuse, director Abel Gance's (Napoleon) indictment of war, is a tale of romance and idealism in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion.
Set against the backdrop of World War I, the idealistic poet Jean Diaz (Victor Francen, A Farewell to Arms), in pursuit of a higher calling, having witnessed the horrors of war, seeks to create a technology that will put an end to future bloodshed.
Jean's hopes for a peaceful resolution are soon dashed when investor Henri Chimax (Jean-Max, Satan's Paradise) appropriates Jean's plans knowing that another world war, looming on the horizon, will profit him financially.
J'accuse features supporting performances by Line Noro (Pépé le Moko), Paul Amiot (Le Cercle Rouge), André Nox (Savage Brigade) and Marie Lou (The Woman Thief).
Directed by Abel Gance, J'accuse (which used his epic 1919 silent screen version as a template) is both a stirring indictment of man's inhumanity to man and an ode to man's capacity for love and compassion.