Lumière and Company

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Jeff Alperi

Policeman

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Romane Bohringer

Age : 50 | Popularity : 12%

Bruno Ganz

Damiel

Age : 77 | Popularity : 24%

Ticky Holgado

Age : 59 | Popularity : 7%

Alan Rickman

Age : 69 | Popularity : 46%

Liam Neeson

Age : 71 | Popularity : 85%

Stephen Rea

Age : 77 | Popularity : 17%

Sven Nykvist

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Costa-Gavras Zhang Yimou Wim Wenders Claude Miller Spike Lee Lasse Hallström David Lynch Michael Haneke Arthur Penn Theo Angelopoulos Liv Ullmann James Ivory Claude Lelouch Cédric Klapisch John Boorman Youssef Chahine Idrissa Ouedraogo Fernando Trueba Régis Wargnier Peter Greenaway Francis Girod Alain Corneau Bigas Luna Patrice Leconte Ismail Merchant Helma Sanders-Brahms Raymond Depardon Hugh Hudson Andrei Konchalovsky Gabriel Axel Jacques Rivette Merzak Allouache Jerry Schatzberg Vicente Aranda Jaco Van Dormael Yoshishige Yoshida Abbas Kiarostami Lucian Pintilie Gaston Kaboré Nadine Trintignant Sarah Moon
Production	Producer	Neal Edelstein Fabienne Servan Schreiber
	Associate Producer	Humbert Balsan
	Co-Producer	Søren Stærmose Ángel Amigo
	Executive Producer	Anne Andreu
Camera	Director of Photography	Sven Nykvist Jean-Yves Le Mener Philippe Poulet Sarah Moon Didier Ferry Frédéric LeClair
Editing	Editor	Roger Ikhlef Timothy Miller
Writing	Idea	Philippe Poulet
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Françoise Nicolet
Sound	Music	Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Art	Art Direction	Anne Andreu
Department	Role	Name

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