Partie de cartes (1896)

Original title

Partie d'écarté

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

43 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 68 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of men sit around a table playing a card game. The film simply shows them playing.

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What happens

Partie de cartes (also known as Card Game and The Messers. Lumière at Cards (USA), or A Quiet Game of Écarté) is an 1895 French black-and-white, silent short film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring Antoine Féraud. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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