Sarah Bernhardt, intimate
(Fiction, France, 1912, 11’, B/W, silent)
by Louis Mercanton

Synopsis
Since 1894, Sarah Bernhardt would go to rest in her property in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, at the Pointe des Poulains. Surrounded by prestigious friends and guests, she organized picnics and cave visits, played tennis, picked fowers and sculpted. Aware of the diffculties of the residents of Belle-Ile, the tragedienne fnanced a cooperative bakery. To thank her for her generosity, the needy fishermen threw a party for her every year.