CinemaOSMovie · 1995 · 1h 28m

Lumière & Company

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

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40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Directed byFrancis Girod, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Vicente Aranda, Claude Lelouch, John Boorman, Costa-Gavras, Alain Corneau, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Lasse Hallström, Raymond Depardon, Theo Angelopoulos, Merzak Allouache, Ismail Merchant, Gabriel Axel, Peter Greenaway, Sarah Moon, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Zhang Yimou, Claude Miller, Arthur Penn, Andrei Konchalovsky, Nadine Trintignant, Liv Ullmann, Régis Wargnier, Jacques Rivette, Bigas Luna, Jaco Van Dormael, Yoshishige Yoshida, Patrice Leconte, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Fernando Trueba, James Ivory, Youssef Chahine, Lucian Pintilie

Status: Released
Runtime: 1h 28m
Language: FR
Released: December 20, 1995

Studios

Cinétévé

La Sept-Arte

Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.

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Trailers & teasers

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Lumière et compagnie (1995) trailer

Lumière et compagnie (1995) trailer

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited

Starring

Jeff Alperi

Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

Romane Bohringer

Romane Bohringer

(segment "Claude Miller")

Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Ticky Holgado

Ticky Holgado

(segment "Claude Lelouch")

Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

(segment "John Boorman")

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

(segment "John Boorman")

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

(segment "John Boorman")

Sven Nykvist

Sven Nykvist

(segment "Liv Ullman")

Lena Olin

Lena Olin

(segment "Lasse Hallström")

Pascal Duquenne

Pascal Duquenne

(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")

Creative team

Directed by: Francis Girod
David Lynch
Produced by: Neal Edelstein
Fabienne Servan Schreiber

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