Abel Gance — Director (17)

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Blind Venus (1941)
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阿贝尔·冈斯 actor: 维维亚娜·罗曼塞 / 乔治·弗拉芒
other title: 盲眼维纳斯 / Vénus aveugle …
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."

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Four Flights to Love (1940)
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阿贝尔·冈斯 actor: Fernand Gravey / 爱尔薇儿·珀派斯科 …
other title: Paradise Lost / Paradis perdu …
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

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拿破仑 (1971)
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Abel Gance actor: 阿尔伯特·迪厄多内 / 安娜贝拉 …
other title: Bonaparte et la révolution
1927年的默片《拿破仑》的有声重制版,由1927年的原素材与摄于1965至1971年间的新素材。

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Austerlitz (1960)
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★ 7.8 8 ratings
other title: 拿破仑在奥斯特里兹 / 决战奥斯特里兹
1805年在创建法兰西第一帝国后,为粉碎反法联盟的进攻,拿破仑率不足八万军与近二十万俄、奥联军英勇决战于奥地利的奥斯特里茨地区,他以坚毅、果敢的指挥艺术只用了不到四小时的时间就给敌人以毁灭性的打击,树立了闻名于世的以少胜多的辉煌战绩。

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Lucrezia Borgia (1937)
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阿贝尔·冈斯 actor: 艾薇琪·弗伊勒 / 盖布瑞·加布埃尔 …
other title: 文艺复兴的女神 / Lucrèce Borgia …
At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to attempt to unify the country in order to become even more powerful. To this end he needs his sister Lucrezia. Presently, the beautiful creature is married to the Count of Pesaro but she would be more useful if she was the wife of Alphonse of Aragon. Never mind, let the Count join his ancestors! And when the Duke of Aragon becomes useless, Cesare easily finds his replacement. Used as a pawn by her brother, Lucrezia eventually renounces happiness and becomes patron of the arts and the letters/ Written by Guy Bellinger

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Dr. Tube's madness (1915)
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★ 5.6 7 ratings
other title: 杜普博士的疯狂 / La folie du Docteur Tube …
A wacky scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect, he tries it out on his boy assistant, his pets, his nieces, and their beaus. But, chaos ensues as his nieces don't find their appearances as funny as the rest, so Doctor Tube tries to find a way to make things right.

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La Roue (1923)
La roue
★ 7.9 8 ratings
阿贝尔·冈斯 / Abel Gance actor: Séverin-Mars / Ivy Close …
other title: 철로의 백장미 / Das Rad …
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.

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Napoleon (1927)
Napoléon
★ 8.2 18 ratings
other title: Napoleone / Napoléon …
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.