Directed by
Nicole Védrès |
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Pierre Braunberger | ... | (idea) |
Nicole Védrès |
Cast (in credits order)
Claude Dauphin | ... | Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice) | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
René Alexandre | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Guillaume Apollinaire | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Régina Badet | ... | Self - actrice et danseuse (archive footage) | |
Maurice Barrès | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Julia Bartet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Henry Bataille | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Sarah Bernhardt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Louis Blériot | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Alice Bonheur | ... | Self - chanteuse et actrice (archive footage) | |
Jean Bouin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Berthe Bovy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Aristide Briand | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
André Brulé | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marcel Cachin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Andrew Carnegie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georges Carpentier | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gustave Charpentier | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Maurice Chevalier | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Buffalo Bill Cody | ... | Self (archive footage) (as William F. Cody) | |
Colette | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georges Courteline | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Crown Prince Hohenzollern | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia) | |
Gabriele D'Annunzio | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul de Cassagnac | ... | Self - journaliste et homme politique (archive footage) | |
Francis de Croisset | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Wilhelmine de Hollande | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Édouard de Max | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Cléo de Mérode | ... | Self - danseuse et modèle (archive footage) | |
Théophile Delcassé | ... | Self - homme politique (archive footage) | |
Gabrielle Dorziat | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Dranem | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul Déroulède | ... | Self - auteur et militant politique (archive footage) | |
Armand Fallières | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Félix Galipaux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier | ... | Self - évêque de Versailles (archive footage) | |
André Gide | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Lucien Guitry | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Firmin Gémier | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Jeaurès | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Emperor Wilhelm II) | |
King Alfonso XIII | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Aristide Maillol | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marie Marlin-Poirier | ... | Self - reine des reines de Paris 1901 (archive footage) | |
Charles Maurras | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Nellie Melba | ... | Self - Former Australian opera singer (archive footage) | |
Arthur Meyer | ... | Self - patron de presse et écrivain (archive footage) | |
Mistinguett | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Claude Monet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Montéhus | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul Mounet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Mounet-Sully | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Carolina Otero | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gaston Ouvrard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Emmeline Pankhurst | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Charles Pathé | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Raymond Poincaré | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Polaire | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marcelle Praince | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marcel Prévost | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Auguste Renoir) | |
Gaston Rivierre | ... | Self - coureur cycliste (archive footage) | |
Gabrielle Robinne | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Auguste Rodin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Madeleine Roques | ... | Self - actrice de la Comédie-Française (archive footage) | |
Gabrielle Réjane | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Camille Saint-Saëns | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Sem | ... | Self - caricaturiste (archive footage) | |
Eugene Silvain | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Cécile Sorel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Lev Tolstoy | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy) | |
Tsar Nicholas II | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Duchesse d' Uzès | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul Valéry | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Pierre Veber | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
René Viviani | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Monty Woolley | ... | Narrator, US version (voice) | |
Ferdinand Zecca | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Produced by
Pierre Braunberger | ... | executive producer |
Edward Kingsley | ... | producer (US version) |
Arthur Mayer | ... | producer (US version) |
Music by
Guy Bernard |
Editing by
Yannick Bellon | ||
Myriam Borsoutsky | ... | (as Myriam) |
Production Management
Claude Hauser | ... | production supervisor |
Alain Resnais | ... | assistant production supervisor |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alain Resnais | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
Jacques Carrère | ... | sound engineer (uncredited) |
Editorial Department
Yannick Bellon | ... | assistant editor |
Additional Crew
John Mason Brown | ... | script (US version) |
Jacques Damiot | ... | consultant |
Sacha Guitry | ... | consultant |
Edward Kingsley | ... | producer, US version |
Henri Langlois | ... | consultant |
Arthur Mayer | ... | producer, US version |
Raymond Peynet | ... | poster designer |
Alain Resnais | ... | researcher (uncredited) |