Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Movie
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
Lumière & Company
19951h 28m6.3 TMDB
DramaDocumentary
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.
Directed by Lasse Hallström, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Alain Corneau, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch
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On screen
Cast
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")
Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")
Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist
(segment "Liv Ullman")
Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Neil Jordan
(segment "John Boorman")
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
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