Lumière & Company (1995)
1h 28m
Running Time
December 20, 1995Release Date
Lumière & Company (1995)
1h 28m
Running Time
December 20, 1995Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment 'David Lynch')

Romane Bohringer
(segment 'Claude Miller')

Pernilla August
Anna Åkerblom (segment "Liv Ullman")

Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment 'Wim Wenders')

Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")

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') / Director of Photography

Lena Olin
(segment 'Lasse Hallström')

Lou Chapiteau
(segment "Claude Miller")

Pascal Duquenne
(segment 'Jaco Van Dormael')

Marc Chapiteau
(segment "Claude Miller")

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')

Francis Girod
Director

David Lynch
Director

Michael Haneke
Director

Vicente Aranda
Director

Claude Lelouch
Director

Peter Deming
Cinematographer

John Boorman
Director

Costa-Gavras
Director

Alain Corneau
Director

Spike Lee
Director

Timothy Miller
Editor

Wim Wenders
Director

Abbas Kiarostami
Director

Cédric Klapisch
Director

Lasse Hallström
Director

Raymond Depardon
Director

Theo Angelopoulos
Director

Merzak Allouache
Director

Ismail Merchant
Director

Gabriel Axel
Director

Peter Greenaway
Director

Sarah Moon
Director / Director of Photography

Idrissa Ouedraogo
Director

Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director

Jerry Schatzberg
Director

Zhang Yimou
Director

Claude Miller
Director

Arthur Penn
Director

Andrei Konchalovsky
Director

Nadine Trintignant
Director

Liv Ullmann
Director

Régis Wargnier
Director

Jacques Rivette
Director

Bigas Luna
Director

Jaco Van Dormael
Director

Yoshishige Yoshida
Director

Patrice Leconte
Director

Hugh Hudson
Director

Gaston Kaboré
Director

Fernando Trueba
Director

James Ivory
Director

Youssef Chahine
Director

Lucian Pintilie
Director

Anne Andreu
Executive Producer / Art Direction

Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Music

Françoise Nicolet
Costume Design

Neal Edelstein
Producer

Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Producer

Roger Ikhlef
Editor

Philippe Poulet
Idea / Director of Photography

Timothy Miller
Editor

Frédéric LeClair
Director of Photography

Humbert Balsan
Associate Producer

Jean-Yves Le Mener
Director of Photography

Didier Ferry
Director of Photography

Ángel Amigo
Co-Producer

Søren Stærmose
Co-Producer
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 20, 1995
Original NameLumière et Compagnie
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Filming LocationsParis, France · Barcelona, Spain · Berlin, Germany · New York City, United States
Genres
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Wiki.
Lumière and Company (original title: Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules:
A short may be no longer than 52 seconds
No synchronized sound
No more than three takes
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