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Director:
Germaine Dulac
Writer:
Antonin Artaud (writer)
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Release Date:
16 February 1933 (Japan) more
Genre:
Short more
Plot:
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Alex Allin ... Le clergyman
Genica Athanasiou ... La femme du général
Lucien Bataille ... Le général
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Seashell and the Clergyman (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Germany:41 min (restored version) | Argentina:28 min
Country:
France
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
Paris, France
Company:
Délia Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
At the film's premier, writer Antonin Artaud, who was obviously not pleased by what director Germain Dulac did to his screenplay, shouted at the screen insulting her as a cow. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Women Who Made the Movies (1992) (V) more

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4 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
L'Avante-Garde, 8 October 2006
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Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States

Germaine Dulac was no ordinary French female film-director. She was Avante-Garde and radical in her film-making which did not include a laugh track or sound. Everything was visual and her silent classics were visuals to be appreciated and understood by all of us. There was a reason that so many people saw the same movie numerous times during that era. First, it was very inexpensive and second, you needed to revisit and see the film again and again until you saw it completely. That's how films once were, films were visual masterpieces and in Dulac's case, she helped reshape the role of women in films to include more than just being an actress. She was the producer, director, and writer. She was many things to many people on film sets in France. Film was new and fresh invention that those of us who seek to learn more about art should watch Dulac's classic.

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