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L'Argent (1928)

L'Argent poster
Directed by
Marcel L'Herbier
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
2h 44m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a banker and speculator who tries to control the Paris stock market. It shows the ruthless competition and moral decay among the wealthy elite.

fast-pacedambitiouscynicalbustlingvisually extravaganttensedramaticgreedy

What happens

L'Argent ("money") is a French silent film directed in 1928 by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was adapted from the 1891 novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, and it portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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