Ceux de chez nous

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

Ceux de chez nous

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

Credits

Sacha Guitry

Director

Film Author :

Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry

A man of theater and cinema, Alexandre Guitry, known as Sacha, was a multi-talented author. He became passionate about cinema as soon as movies became talkies and devoted himself to them more particularly after the Second World War. He started with Ceux de chez nous (Our People) in 1914, which was soundtracked in 1939. He met with great success with flms such as Désiré (1937), Quadrille (1937) and If Paris Were Told to Us (1955). Famous for his glibness, pride and alleged misogyny, Sacha Guitry was not always unanimously popular, which did not prevent him from receiving the Legion of Honor and remaining one of the most often performed authors in France.

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