L'Engrenage
About L'Engrenage
Madame de Calvières and her brother Roger are dragged into trouble by a debt that has not been paid. Fernand Herrmann plays her husband. René Cresté plays a naval officer. Gaston Michel plays Bossard.
Cast & crew
More about L'Engrenage
Louis Feuillade wrote and directed the Gaumont drama. Maurice Champreux photographed and edited it. Robert-Jules Garnier designed the sets. Sylvia Lux plays Madame de Calvières. Édouard Mathé plays Roger. A listed release date is 10 October 1919. It runs 58 minutes.
Themes
Making
Feuillade kept the production inside Gaumont: his own script, Champreux on camera and cutting, Garnier on the sets.
Look
Maurice Champreux shot the 58-minute drama and also cut it.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The title means a gear train, or the way one event locks into the next.
- Cresté, who plays the naval officer, was also Judex in Feuillade's serial.
- Louis Leubas, Geneviève Félix, and Edmond Bréon are in the cast without parts named in the French credits.
- The picture is silent, black and white, 35mm, 1.33:1.
- A print is on the Internet Archive under the id silent-lengrenage.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-lengrenage)
