Sarah Bernhardt, intimate

Sarah Bernhardt, intimate

(Fiction, France, 1912, 11’, B/W, silent)

by Louis Mercanton

Sarah Bernhardt, intimate

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.

Film Author :

Louis Mercanton
Louis Mercanton

Louis Mercanton was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer born in Nyon in 1879. He began his theatrical career in 1904 in South Africa. Then, he worked with Henri Desfontaines on literary adaptations and historical flms such as La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias) or L’Assassinat d’Henri III (The Assassination of Henry III). Their collaboration on the flm Queen Elizabeth with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role was a huge success both in France and abroad. During the First World War, he and René Hervil co-directed Mères françaises (French Mothers); an anti-German propaganda flm released in 1917, again with Sarah Bernhardt in the lead role.

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