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Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1921)

Fromont jeune et Risler aîné poster
Directed by
Henry Krauss
Genre
silent film
Country
France
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent film about two families connected by business and marriage. It follows their fortunes and conflicts over time.

old-fashionedclassicalmelodramaticstudieddeliberatenarrative-driven

What happens

Fromont jeune et Risler aîné est un film d’Henry Krauss (1866–1935) en deux époques, sorti en 1921, adapté du roman homonyme d’Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), paru en 1874. Henry Krauss est à la fois le réalisateur, le scénariste et un des interprètes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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