Ceux de chez nous
(Documentary, France, 1914, 22’, B/W, silent)
by Sacha Guitry
with Auguste Rodin, Edmond Rostand, Claude Monet, Anatole France, Edgar Degas, Camille Saint-Saëns, Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir, André Antoine, Octave Mirbeau, Sarah Bernhardt, Sacha Guitry, Jane Faber, Henri-Robert, Henri Desfontaines, Charlotte Lysès, Claude Renoir

Synopsis
In reaction to a German manifesto exalting German culture, Sacha Guitry immortalized the greatest artists of his time. During the screening, he repeated what his prestigious guests had told him (or not) on the set. In 1952, Guitry commented on the original silent version and augmented it with a preamble and interludes about the artists, filmed in his office by Frédérique Rossif
Reviews
“In 1952, his commentary rewrote the images of 1915. Guitry confrmed his mistrust of images alone, which cannot be correct images… Ceux de chez nous is thus a double-barreled flm. It is 1952 that justifed the stroke of genius of 1915 and made it a real flm, instead of a “pure” archive document.” Bernard Eisenschitz, in coll. “Sacha Guitry, Cinéaste”. Ed. Yellow Now, 1993