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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 in each of the filmmakers making a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
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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Original Release
12/20/1995
US Release
03/29/1996
Cast
Name | Character |
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Merzak Allouache | Self |
Jeffe Alperi | Policeman (segment "David Lynch") / Policeman |
Theodoros Angelopoulos | Self |
Romane Bohringer | (segment "Claude Miller") |
Michele Carlyle | (segment "David Lynch") |
Youssef Chahine | Self |
Lou Chapiteau | (segment "Claude Miller") |
Marc Chapiteau | (segment "Claude Miller") |
Antoine Dulery | (segment "Claude Lelouch") |
Pascal Duquenne | (segment "Jaco Van Dormael") |
Directors
Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallstrom, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cedric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Regis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Merzak Allouache | Self |
Jeffe Alperi | Policeman (segment "David Lynch") / Policeman |
Theodoros Angelopoulos | Self |
Romane Bohringer | (segment "Claude Miller") |
Michele Carlyle | (segment "David Lynch") |
Youssef Chahine | Self |
Lou Chapiteau | (segment "Claude Miller") |
Marc Chapiteau | (segment "Claude Miller") |
Antoine Dulery | (segment "Claude Lelouch") |
Pascal Duquenne | (segment "Jaco Van Dormael") |
Bruno Ganz | Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders") / Damiel |
Charles Gérard | (segment "Claude Lelouch") |
Ticky Holgado | (segment "Claude Lelouch") |
Isabelle Huppert | Récitante: Segment Abbas Kiarostami / (voice) |
James Ivory | Self |
Neil Jordan | (segment "John Boorman") |
Patrice Leconte | Self (segment "Sarah Moon") |
Satchel Lee | (segment "Spike Lee") |
Spike Lee | Self (segment "Sarah Moon") |
Claude Lelouch | Self (segment "Sarah Moon") |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Anne Andreu | Executive Producer |
Ángel Amigo | Producer |
Humbert Balsan | Producer |
Neal Edelstein | Producer |
Fabienne Servan-Schreiber | Producer |
Søren Stærmose | Producer |