Georges Mourier

The incredible adventure of what was supposed to be a three-month inventory project turned into a vast undertaking lasting more than fourteen years, an extraordinary reconstruction and restoration with unexpected twists and turns of one of the masterpieces of world cinema: Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance (1927).

The twenty-four hours that liberated Paris. Far from history lessons, men, soldiers or resistance fighters of yesterday, testify of these days of August 1944 which they lived with their impulses, their modesty but also their humor.

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Philippe Esnault, Clarisse Gance, Jany Holt, Robert Hossein, Claude Lafaye, Claude Lelouch, Pierre Mondy and Claude Pinoteau have in common the fact to have been, in private life or professionally, closed to one of the greatest personalities of cinema’s history, Abel Gance. What relations did they have with the great man who used to say: “There is always a principle behind me”.What ways of idea the producer of “Napoléon” has left to them?