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

1 video

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: John Boorman
Michael Haneke
Produced by: Neal Edelstein
Fabienne Servan Schreiber

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