Vendémiaire (1919)
2h 28m
Running Time
January 17, 1919Release Date
Plot.
If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as ‘Fantastic Realism’, Vendémiaire is wonderfully down-to-earth realism – or down-to-French-earth realism to be specific. The film itself is divided into four chapters, the titles of which suggest that this is a movie about the cultivation and consumption of wine. But as the narrative unfolds, it becomes clear that the cultivation and consumption of wine is an allegory for French culture and French land as a whole, and the real purpose of the film is to persuade the director’s fellow citizens to defend that spirit and those lands at all costs. It’s September 1918 and the war is coming to an end, but here on the Castelviel estate in the south of France the news has not yet arrived and everyone is busy with the grape harvest...
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Cast & Crew.
René Cresté
Sergeant Pierre Bertin
Édouard Mathé
Capitaine de Castelviel
Louis Leubas
Wilfrid (Léopold Lopastraer)
Mary Harald
Sara la bohémienne
Louis Feuillade
Director
Maurice Champreux
Cinematographer
Manuel Caméré
Fritz
Léon Klausse
Cinematographer
Details.
Wiki.
The film was directed by Louis Feuillade.