About
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Theatrical
Mar 29, 1996
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 14, 1998
Directors
Lasse Hallström, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Alain Corneau, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Michael Haneke, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Costa-Gavras, Theo Angelopoulos, Peter Greenaway, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Andrei Konchalovsky, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Yoshishige Yoshida, Zhang Yimou, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette, Youssef Chahine, Lucian Pintilie
Producers
Studio
Cinétévé, La Sept-Arte, Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L., Søren Stærmose
Original Title
Lumière et Compagnie
Original Language
French
Keywords
Cast
Full credits →R
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
B
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
T
Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
A
Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")
Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")
S
Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")
S
Sven Nykvist
(segment "Liv Ullman")
L
Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")
P
Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
N
Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
N
Neil Jordan
(segment "John Boorman")
A
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
I
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
O
Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
M
Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
S
Spike Lee
Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
D
David Lynch
Self
Z
Zhang Yimou
Self
J
Jacques Rivette
Self
