Directed by
| Philippe Arthuys | ||
| Gilbert Prouteau | ||
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Jean Barral | ... | (collaborating writer) |
| Max Damain | ... | (collaborating writer) |
| Thierry Maulnier | ... | (adaptation) |
| Gilbert Prouteau | ... | (writer) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Jean-Paul Belmondo | ... | Le Photographe / Récitant / Présentateur | |
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| Marcel Achard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Amarande | ||
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Guillaume Apollinaire | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Louis Aragon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Imperio Argentina | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Antonin Artaud | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Pascale Audret | ... | Recitant (voice) | |
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Georges Auric | ||
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Gaston Bachelard | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Josephine Baker | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Henri Barbusse | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Maurice Barrès | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Raymond Belin | ||
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Muriel Belmondo | ... | Nurse |
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Pierre Benoît | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Henri Bergson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Henri Berjonneau | ||
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Tristan Bernard | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Julien Bertheau | ... | Recitant (voice) | |
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Léon Blum | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Pierre Bonnard | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Henry Bordeaux | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Michel Bouquet | ... | Récitant (voice) | |
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Antoine Bourdelle | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Édouard Branly | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Georges Braque | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Gustave Charpentier | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Jean Chevolleau | ||
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Paul Claudel | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Georges Clemenceau | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Denis Cochin | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Jean Cocteau | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Colette | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Georges Courteline | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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François de Curel | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Marie Curie | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Maria Sklodowska-Curie) | |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Céline) | |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Nathalie Dalyan | |||
| Salvador Dalí | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Suzanne de Bruycker | ... | Self (archive footage) (as madame Otto Abetz) |
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Alphonse de Chateaubriant | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Henry de Monfreid | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Henri de Monfreid) |
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Henry de Montherlant | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Anna de Noailles | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Saint-Exupéry) | |
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Maurice de Vlaminck | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Marcelle Derrien | |||
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Robert Desnos | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Charles Despiau | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Raoul Dufy | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Pierre Dux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Paul Déroulède | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Gustave Eiffel | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Albert Einstein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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James Ensor | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Armand Fallières | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Claude Farrère | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Gabriel Fauré | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Camille Flammarion | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Anatole France | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Pierre Fresnay | ... | Récitant (voice) | |
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Fujita | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Foujita) |
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Gauthier-Sylla | ||
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Alain Gerbault | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| André Gide | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Jean Giraudoux | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Maxim Gorky | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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La Goulue | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Ernest Hemingway | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Adolf Hitler | ... | Asshole (archive footage) | |
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Arthur Honegger | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Husk | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Philippe Hériat | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Max Jacob | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Jean Jaurès | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Le Corbusier) | |
| Frédéric Joliot-Curie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Louis Jouvet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Joseph Kessel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Maria Latour | |||
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Henri Laurens | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Laurens) |
| Franz Lehár | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Serge Lifar | |||
| Max Linder | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Fernand Léger | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| André Malraux | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Guglielmo Marconi | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Roger Martin du Gard | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Pierre Massimi | ||
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Henri Matisse | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| François Mauriac | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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André Maurois | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Charles Maurras | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Aristide Mayol | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Jean Mermoz | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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André Messager | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Darius Milhaud | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Mistinguett | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Frédéric Mistral | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Gaston Modot | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Claude Monet | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Michèle Montfort | ||
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Jean Mounet-Sully | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Benito Mussolini | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Armande Navarre | ||
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Nijinsky | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Jean Négroni | ... | Récitant (voice) |
| Paul Pauley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Auguste Perret | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Saint-John Perse | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Francis Picabia | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Mary Pickford | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Luigi Pirandello | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Raymond Poincaré | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Sergei Prokofiev | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Albert Préjean | |||
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Raymond Radiguet | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Maurice Ravel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Michel Renault | ||
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Auguste Renoir) |
| Jane Renouardt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Jean Richepin | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Auguste Rodin | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Romain Rolland | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Jules Romains | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Edmond Rostand | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Jean Rostand | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Georges Rouault | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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André Rouveyre | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Gabrielle Réjane | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Renée Saint-Cyr | ... | Recitant (voice) | |
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Saint-Pol-Roux | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Erik Satie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Gertrude Stein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Alexandre Steinlen | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Jules Supervielle | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Rabindranath Tagore | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Pierre Theilhard de Chardin | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Teilhard de Chardin) |
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Louis Thomassont | ||
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Maurice Thorez | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Lev Tolstoy | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy) | |
| Lev Trotskiy | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Leon Trotsky) | |
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Miguel de Unamuno | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Maurice Utrillo | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Paul Valéry | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Jacqueline Vermerlen | ||
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Jacques Villon | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Wunn-Hund | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ossip Zadkine | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Zadkine) |
| Émile Zola | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Music by
| Darius Milhaud | ||
| Jean Wiener | ||
Cinematography by
| Raymond Letouzey | ||
Editing by
| Jean Delage | ||
| Martine Gournac | ||
| Michel Hirtz | ||
| Jean-Louis Levi-Alvarès | ||
Production Design by
| Louis Abribat | ||
| Jacques Mawart | ||
Makeup Department
| Yvonne Gasperina | ... | makeup artist (as Gasperina) |
| Anatole Paris | ... | makeup artist |
Sound Department
| Gaston Tadié | ... | sound recordist |
Special Effects by
| Roger Nicolas | ... | special effects |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Raymond Letouzey | ... | camera operator |
Location Management
| André Chabrol | ... | location manager |
| Henri Germain | ... | location manager |
Music Department
| Georges Auric | ... | musician |
| Claude Giroux | ... | musician: accordeon |
Additional Crew
| Daniel Creusot | ... | researcher |
| Claude Delaunay | ... | work on documents |
| Pierre Pin | ... | work on documents |
| Yves Montand | ... | voice dubbing (uncredited) |
Thanks
| Paul Bedu | ... | thanks |
| René Clair | ... | thanks |
| Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry | ... | thanks |
| Sonia Delaunay | ... | thanks |
| Edouard Dermithe | ... | thanks (as Edouard Dermit) |
| Lucette Destouches | ... | thanks (as Madame Louis Ferdinand Céline) |
| Jean Dréville | ... | thanks |
| Fujita | ... | thanks (as Foujita) |
| Abel Gance | ... | thanks |
| Jacqueline Jacoupy | ... | thanks |
| Marcel L'Herbier | ... | thanks |
| Simone Lurcat | ... | thanks |
| Marcel Pagnol | ... | thanks |
| Camille Renaud | ... | thanks |
| Bellanger Roger | ... | thanks |
| Jules Romains | ... | thanks |
| Divine Saint-Pol Roux | ... | thanks |
| Henri Storck | ... | thanks (as Henri Stork) |
