Pierrot, Pierrette
About Pierrot, Pierrette
Pierrot and his sister Pierrette live in a caravan with their grandfather, a retired circus ringmaster, and sing in the streets. The picture opens in the confetti at the Carnival of Nice, where the children sell peanuts. A charitable woman sets out to put the grandfather in a home and the children in an orphanage. They run. A traveling vendor catches them and means to use them on burglaries.
Cast & crew
More about Pierrot, Pierrette
Louis Feuillade wrote and directed it for Gaumont. Maurice Champreux photographed and edited it. It runs 67 minutes. René Poyen, who had played Bout-de-Zan in the Judex serials, is billed, with Geneviève Juttet and Henri-Amédée Charpentier. Julio de Romero, Emile Dupré, Jean-Pierre Stock, and Bouboule are also billed.
Themes
Making
Feuillade starts in the Nice carnival and then moves the children from the caravan to the vendor who wants them for break-ins.
Look
Maurice Champreux photographed the Carnival of Nice and the caravan.
Preservation
A print was lost and later found. Gaumont restored it.
Notes
- The grandfather's caravan is a leftover from his circus.
- Poyen's earlier Feuillade part was the boy Bout-de-Zan.
- The opening crowd is the Carnival of Nice.
- The picture was missing for years. Gaumont later restored a print.
Scenes
- The children sell peanuts in the confetti at Nice.
- They run from the plan to put them in an orphanage.
- The vendor takes them for burglary jobs.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-pierrot-pierrette)
