
Lumière & Company (1995)
6.2|20 Dec, 1995|88 min
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
6.2|20 Dec, 1995|88 min
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40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Keywords
homage
woman director
Casts
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")

Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")

Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")

Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")

Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")

Sven Nykvist
(segment "Liv Ullman")

Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")

Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")

Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")

Neil Jordan
(segment "John Boorman")

Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")

Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)

Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")

Spike Lee
Self (segment "Sarah Moon")

David Lynch
Self

Zhang Yimou
Self

Jacques Rivette
Self
Crews

Lasse Hallström
Director

Vicente Aranda
Director

John Boorman
Director

Alain Corneau
Director

Raymond Depardon
Director
Francis Girod
Director

Abbas Kiarostami
Director

Cédric Klapisch
Director

Spike Lee
Director

Claude Lelouch
Director

Michael Haneke
Director

David Lynch
Director

Wim Wenders
Director

Costa-Gavras
Director

Theo Angelopoulos
Director

Peter Greenaway
Director

Hugh Hudson
Director

Gaston Kaboré
Director

Andrei Konchalovsky
Director

Bigas Luna
Director
Sarah Moon
Director

Arthur Penn
Director

Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director

Jerry Schatzberg
Director

Nadine Trintignant
Director

Fernando Trueba
Director

Liv Ullmann
Director

Jaco Van Dormael
Director

Régis Wargnier
Director

Yoshishige Yoshida
Director

Zhang Yimou
Director

Merzak Allouache
Director

Gabriel Axel
Director

James Ivory
Director

Patrice Leconte
Director

Ismail Merchant
Director

Claude Miller
Director

Idrissa Ouedraogo
Director

Jacques Rivette
Director

Youssef Chahine
Director

Lucian Pintilie
Director
Philippe Poulet
Idea
Anne Andreu
Art Direction

Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Music
Timothy Miller
Editor
Roger Ikhlef
Editor
Françoise Nicolet
Costume Design
Anne Andreu
Executive Producer

Neal Edelstein
Producer
Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Producer

Humbert Balsan
Associate Producer

Søren Stærmose
Co-Producer
Ángel Amigo
Co-Producer
Didier Ferry
Director of Photography
Jean-Yves Le Mener
Director of Photography
Frédéric LeClair
Director of Photography
Sarah Moon
Director of Photography

Sven Nykvist
Director of Photography
Philippe Poulet
Director of Photography
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