Drama Documentary
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.
Directed by
Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Peter Greenaway, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Sarah Moon, Spike Lee, Vicente Aranda, Raymond Depardon, James Ivory, Jaco Van Dormael, Bigas Luna, Francis Girod, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Hugh Hudson, Theo Angelopoulos, Cédric Klapisch, Lucian Pintilie, John Boorman, Costa-Gavras, Merzak Allouache, Youssef Chahine, Michael Haneke, Claude Lelouch, Nadine Trintignant, Patrice Leconte, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Régis Wargnier, Yoshishige Yoshida, Abbas Kiarostami, Fernando Trueba, Lasse Hallström, Zhang Yimou, Gabriel Axel, Jacques Rivette, Andrei Konchalovsky, Gaston Kaboré, Jerry Schatzberg, Liv Ullmann, Alain Corneau, Arthur Penn
Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")
Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Liv Ullmann
Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")
Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

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