Directed by
Philippe Arthuys | ||
Gilbert Prouteau |
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Jean Barral | ... | (collaborating writer) |
Max Damain | ... | (collaborating writer) |
Thierry Maulnier | ... | (adaptation) |
Gilbert Prouteau | ... | (writer) |
Cast (in credits order)
Jean-Paul Belmondo | ... | Le Photographe / Récitant / Présentateur | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Marcel Achard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Amarande | |||
Guillaume Apollinaire | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Louis Aragon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Imperio Argentina | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Antonin Artaud | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pascale Audret | ... | Recitant (voice) | |
Georges Auric | |||
Gaston Bachelard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Josephine Baker | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Henri Barbusse | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maurice Barrès | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Raymond Belin | |||
Muriel Belmondo | ... | Nurse | |
Pierre Benoît | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Henri Bergson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Henri Berjonneau | |||
Tristan Bernard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Sarah Bernhardt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Julien Bertheau | ... | Recitant (voice) | |
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Léon Blum | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Bonnard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Henry Bordeaux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Michel Bouquet | ... | Récitant (voice) | |
Antoine Bourdelle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Édouard Branly | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georges Braque | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gustave Charpentier | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Chevolleau | |||
Paul Claudel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georges Clemenceau | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Denis Cochin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Cocteau | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Colette | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georges Courteline | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
François de Curel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marie Curie | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Maria Sklodowska-Curie) | |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Céline) | |
Gabriele D'Annunzio | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Nathalie Dalyan | |||
Salvador Dalí | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Suzanne de Bruycker | ... | Self (archive footage) (as madame Otto Abetz) | |
Alphonse de Chateaubriant | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles de Gaulle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Henry de Monfreid | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Henri de Monfreid) | |
Henry de Montherlant | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Anna de Noailles | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Saint-Exupéry) | |
Maurice de Vlaminck | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marcelle Derrien | |||
Robert Desnos | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles Despiau | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Raoul Dufy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Dux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul Déroulède | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gustave Eiffel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Albert Einstein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
James Ensor | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Armand Fallières | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Claude Farrère | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gabriel Fauré | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Camille Flammarion | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Anatole France | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Fresnay | ... | Récitant (voice) | |
Fujita | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Foujita) | |
Gauthier-Sylla | |||
Alain Gerbault | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
André Gide | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Giraudoux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maxim Gorky | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
La Goulue | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Ernest Hemingway | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Adolf Hitler | ... | Asshole (archive footage) | |
Arthur Honegger | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Husk | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Philippe Hériat | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Max Jacob | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Jaurès | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Le Corbusier) | |
Frédéric Joliot-Curie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Louis Jouvet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joseph Kessel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Rudyard Kipling | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maria Latour | |||
Henri Laurens | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Laurens) | |
Franz Lehár | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Serge Lifar | |||
Max Linder | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Fernand Léger | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maurice Maeterlinck | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
André Malraux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Roger Martin du Gard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Massimi | |||
Henri Matisse | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
François Mauriac | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
André Maurois | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles Maurras | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Vladimir Mayakovsky | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Aristide Mayol | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Mermoz | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
André Messager | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Darius Milhaud | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Mistinguett | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Frédéric Mistral | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gaston Modot | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Claude Monet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Michèle Montfort | |||
Jean Mounet-Sully | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Benito Mussolini | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Armande Navarre | |||
Nijinsky | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Négroni | ... | Récitant (voice) | |
Paul Pauley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Auguste Perret | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Saint-John Perse | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Francis Picabia | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Mary Pickford | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Luigi Pirandello | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Raymond Poincaré | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Sergei Prokofiev | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Albert Préjean | |||
Raymond Radiguet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maurice Ravel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Michel Renault | |||
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Auguste Renoir) | |
Jane Renouardt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Richepin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Auguste Rodin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Romain Rolland | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jules Romains | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Edmond Rostand | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Rostand | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georges Rouault | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
André Rouveyre | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gabrielle Réjane | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Renée Saint-Cyr | ... | Recitant (voice) | |
Saint-Pol-Roux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Erik Satie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
George Bernard Shaw | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gertrude Stein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Alexandre Steinlen | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jules Supervielle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Rabindranath Tagore | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Theilhard de Chardin | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Teilhard de Chardin) | |
Louis Thomassont | |||
Maurice Thorez | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Lev Tolstoy | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy) | |
Lev Trotskiy | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Leon Trotsky) | |
Miguel de Unamuno | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maurice Utrillo | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul Valéry | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jacqueline Vermerlen | |||
Jacques Villon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Wunn-Hund | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Ossip Zadkine | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Zadkine) | |
Émile Zola | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Music by
Darius Milhaud | ||
Jean Wiener |
Cinematography by
Raymond Letouzey |
Editing by
Jean Delage | ||
Martine Gournac | ||
Michel Hirtz | ||
Jean-Louis Levi-Alvarès |
Production Design by
Louis Abribat | ||
Jacques Mawart |
Makeup Department
Yvonne Gasperina | ... | makeup artist (as Gasperina) |
Anatole Paris | ... | makeup artist |
Sound Department
Gaston Tadié | ... | sound recordist |
Special Effects by
Roger Nicolas | ... | special effects |
Camera and Electrical Department
Raymond Letouzey | ... | camera operator |
Location Management
André Chabrol | ... | location manager |
Henri Germain | ... | location manager |
Music Department
Georges Auric | ... | musician |
Claude Giroux | ... | musician: accordeon |
Additional Crew
Daniel Creusot | ... | researcher |
Claude Delaunay | ... | work on documents |
Pierre Pin | ... | work on documents |
Yves Montand | ... | voice dubbing (uncredited) |
Thanks
Paul Bedu | ... | thanks |
René Clair | ... | thanks |
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry | ... | thanks |
Sonia Delaunay | ... | thanks |
Edouard Dermithe | ... | thanks (as Edouard Dermit) |
Lucette Destouches | ... | thanks (as Madame Louis Ferdinand Céline) |
Jean Dréville | ... | thanks |
Fujita | ... | thanks (as Foujita) |
Abel Gance | ... | thanks |
Jacqueline Jacoupy | ... | thanks |
Marcel L'Herbier | ... | thanks |
Simone Lurcat | ... | thanks |
Marcel Pagnol | ... | thanks |
Camille Renaud | ... | thanks |
Bellanger Roger | ... | thanks |
Jules Romains | ... | thanks |
Divine Saint-Pol Roux | ... | thanks |
Henri Storck | ... | thanks (as Henri Stork) |