J'accuse (1919 film), La Roue, Napoléon (1927 film), Victor Francen, Blaise Cendrars, Léonce Perret
Acu Publishing
(2011-07-30
)
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ISBN-13:
978-613-4-95866-0
ISBN-10:
6134958662
EAN:
9786134958660
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Abel Gance (25 October 1889 - 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse, La Roue, and the monumental Napoléon. Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous Jewish doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Françoise Péréthon (or Perthon). Initially taking his mother's name, he was brought up until the age of eight by his maternal grandparents in the coal mining town of Commentry in central France. He then returned to Paris to rejoin his mother who had by then married Adolphe Gance, a chauffeur and mechanic, whose name Abel then adopted.