L'Arlésienne (1908)

Directed by

Albert Capellani

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

18 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man in Arles falls in love with a woman who proves faithless. The film is based on a play and was the first production of a company that adapted literary classics for the screen.

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What happens

L'Arlésienne (English: The Girl from Arles) is a 1908 French drama film directed by Albert Capellani, based on Alphonse Daudet's eponymous play. It is the first film produced by the Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL) [fr] (English: Cinematographic Society of Authors and Writers) created at the beginning of the same year to produce cinematographic adaptations of literary classics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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