LE FANTOME D'HENRI LANGLOIS (HENRI LANGLOIS THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMATHEQUE)

Out of Competition

Directed by :: Jacques RICHARD

Country:: FRANCE

Year:: 2004

Duration:: 212.00 minutes

Synopsis

Henri Langlois creates the Cinémathèque Française in 1936, and saves by this way a thousand films from forgetting and destruction. He gaves birth to the Nouvelle Vague, making know the new cineasts from all the world. Evicted from his Cinémathèque in February 1968 by the De Gaulle government, the cineasts round up and obtain his reinstatement, creating a kind of general rehearsal of May 1968. He was also the creator of the Musée du Cinéma at the Palais de Chaillot, " Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois " makes live again this unic man, rewarded by an oscar in 1974, through archives and testimonies of famous people.

Credits

Jacques RICHARD - Director
Jacques RICHARD - Screenplay
Jacques RICHARD - Director of Photography
Jerôme BLUMBERG - Director of Photography
Fabrice RADENAC - Film Editor
BABY/FARRELL - Music

Actors

Contacts and useful links

Production

LES FILMS ELEMENTAIRES - JACQUES RICHARD - 43 rue Pajol - 75018 Paris - FRANCE - T : 33 (0)1 42 09 53 22 - lesfilmselementaires@hotmail.com - LA CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE (France)

French press

Agnès CHABOT - 6 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine - 75006 Paris - FRANCE - T : 33 (0)1 44 41 13 48 - F : 33 (0)1 46 34 75 09 - agnes.chabot@free.fr

International press

Agnès CHABOT

Foreign sales

INA - Jean-Luc VERNHET - 83 rue de Patay - 75013 Paris - FRANCE - T : 33 (0)1 44 23 12 12 - F : 33 (0)1 44 23 11 12