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Bookmark this pageParadis Perdu (1939)
Director: Abel Gance
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From Time Out Film Guide
Napoléon made Gance, at 38, the youngest Grand Old Man of French cinema. Thereafter his career, a sequence of theatrical adaptations and historical romances relieved only by some grandiose (and mostly doomed) projects, described a precipitously downward spiral similar to that of L'Herbier. Not much extravagance, then, in this film, the sentimental chronicle of a World War I widower overly troubled by his daughter's physical resemblance to her late mother. Academic and impersonal, its sole asset is a youthfully ingenuous Micheline Presle.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: Abel Gance
Cast: Fernand Gravey, Micheline Presle, Robert Pizani, Elvire Popesco, Robert Le Vigan, Alerme, Jane Marken full cast
Duration: 88 mins
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