Lumière and Company (1995)
1h 28m
Running Time
December 20, 1995Release Date
Lumière and Company (1995)
1h 28m
Running Time
December 20, 1995Release Date
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Pernilla August
Anna Åkerblom (segment "Liv Ullman")
Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Merzak Allouache
Self
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Theo Angelopoulos
Director
Vicente Aranda
Director
John Boorman
Director
Youssef Chahine
Director
Alain Corneau
Director
Nathalie Richard
Ninon
Costa-Gavras
Director
Isabelle Huppert
(voice)
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Zhang Yimou
Director
Wim Wenders
Director
Claude Miller
Director
Spike Lee
Director
Lasse Hallström
Director
David Lynch
Director
Neal Edelstein
Producer
Michael Haneke
Director
Arthur Penn
Director
Liv Ullmann
Director
James Ivory
Director
Claude Lelouch
Director
Cédric Klapisch
Director
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Director
Fernando Trueba
Director
Régis Wargnier
Director
Peter Greenaway
Director
Francis Girod
Director
Humbert Balsan
Associate Producer
Bigas Luna
Director
Patrice Leconte
Director
Ismail Merchant
Director
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director
Raymond Depardon
Director
Hugh Hudson
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
Jean-Yves Le Mener
Director of Photography
Gabriel Axel
Director
Jacques Rivette
Director
Jerry Schatzberg
Director
Jaco Van Dormael
Director
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Director
Roger Ikhlef
Editor
Søren Stærmose
Co-Producer
Lucian Pintilie
Director
Philippe Poulet
Director of Photography / Idea
Ángel Amigo
Co-Producer
Françoise Nicolet
Costume Design
Gaston Kaboré
Director
Nadine Trintignant
Director
Sarah Moon
Director / Director of Photography
Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Producer
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Music
Anne Andreu
Executive Producer / Art Direction
Timothy Miller
Editor
Didier Ferry
Director of Photography
Frédéric LeClair
Director of Photography
Romane Bohringer
Ticky Holgado
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 20, 1995
Original NameLumière et Compagnie
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States of America · Paris, France · Berlin, Germany · Barcelona, Spain
Genres
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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