Armand Tallier
Acting
Biography
Armand Tallier (6 August 1887 – 1 March 1958) was a French stage and film actor of the silent era. In 1925 he established a small cinema in Paris, the Studio des Ursulines, to secure screenings of avant garde films that would struggle to get a mainstream release.
Known For
A doctor, specialist in pediatrics, has no time for his wife Marthe. She seeks solace in the arms of his brother. Unable to keep up the charade, Marthe attempts to shoot herself, but it is her lover who is mortally wounded.
The Torture of Silence
Evelyne attempts to reconnect with her family after a traumatizing experience with a young writer.
Le Bercail
Adapted from Hugo's eponym novel, the story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whomever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows both his physical trials and tribulations.
Les Travailleurs de la mer
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A Marriage of Reason
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Son passé
When he was a child, François Gérard got to know Antiope, a little foreigner, in a Paris park. As an adult, he sees her again in her native country, Mingrelia, which is on the verge of revolution. He is then the host of Count of Antrim, who is also Antiope's father. However, once in the presence of François, the young woman does not seem particularly moved, which somewhat puzzles him.
La chaussée des géants
In the lands of Brière a bitter dispute broke out over the draining of marshes for brick making. An old man, Aoustin, leads the resistance and refuses to give the hand of his daughter Théotiste to a young peasant, Jeannin, who supports it.
La Brière
No description available.
Un coup de feu dans la nuit
Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has ever told her about the strange circumstances in which her mother lost her life. In fact, fifteen years earlier, following a hunting party, Mme de Sergeac had been found in her bedroom, killed by gunshot. Beside her, her husband, wounded and unconscious. Now Simone is fifteen. She is in love with Michel Mignier, but she still does not know the truth. It is Hermance, the governess, who will the reveal the whole thing ...
Simone
Directed by Léon Poirier.
Le penseur
No description available.
La comtesse de Somerive
Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution. He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl. But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.
Jocelyn
The romantic drama based on the play of the same name, depicting the life of a 17th-century French courtesan.