Jean-Patrick Gauthier

An exploration of the dazzling rise and mysterious downfall of French actor and filmmaker Max Linder (1883-1925), the world’s first international film star and mentor to British actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

Paris, Spring 1920. Alphonse Maindron, trench veteran, receives the visit of a young journalist, François Duval. Here to ask him about recent events, as tragic as strange, which Alphonse would have witnessed.