Balzac in the cinema is an old story.
It all started in black and white and without words, in the golden age of silent cinema, which won the support of a very large audience.
In 1927, when sound cinema was introduced, around thirty films had already been made from Balzac's work.
With a thousand main characters and 4,000 to 6,000 secondary characters identified by Félicien Marceau in his indispensable
Balzac et son monde
(Gallimard),
La Comédie humaine
offered the embarrassment of choice to filmmakers who love characters.
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The Ris case or the plot according to Balzac
It was the darker and more poisonous that first captured our attention.
Nowadays, the romantic trilogy of the
History of the Thirteen
(
Ferragus
,
The Duchess of Langeais
,
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
) is often overlooked, but in the bittersweet mood of the last years of the Belle Époque, in the age of airplanes and on the eve of the industrialized carnage of the Great War, it had its fans.
This is how André Calmettes, the actor
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