Paris Nineteen Hundred

Paris Nineteen Hundred

80 mins | Documentary | Feb. 25, 1948

Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.

Paris Nineteen Hundred

80 mins | Documentary | Feb. 25, 1948

Paris Nineteen Hundred
Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers
Original title Paris 1900
Directors Nicole Védrès, Alain Resnais
Writers Nicole Védrès, Pierre Braunberger

Cast

Claude Dauphin

as Le narrateur

Guillaume Apollinaire

as Self (archive footage)

René Alexandre

as Self (archive footage)

Régina Badet

as Self - actrice et danseuse (archive footage)

Maurice Barrès

as Self (archive footage)

Julia Bartet

as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Bernhardt

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Bataille

as Self (archive footage)

Louis Blériot

as Self (archive footage)

Alice Bonheur

as Self - chanteuse et actrice (archive footage)

Jean Bouin

as Self (archive footage)

Berthe Bovy

as Self (archive footage)

Aristide Briand

as Self (archive footage)

André Brulé

as Self (archive footage)

Marcel Cachin

as Self (archive footage)

Andrew Carnegie

as Self (archive footage)

Georges Carpentier

as Self (archive footage)

Gustave Charpentier

as Self (archive footage)

Maurice Chevalier

as Self (archive footage)

Buffalo Bill Cody

as Self (archive footage) (as William F. Cody)

Colette

as Self (archive footage)

Georges Courteline

as Self (archive footage)

Francis de Croisset

as Self (archive footage)

Gabriele D'Annunzio

as Self (archive footage)

Paul de Cassagnac

as Self - journaliste et homme politique (archive footage)

Wilhelmine de Hollande

as Self (archive footage)

Édouard de Max

as Self (archive footage)

Cléo de Mérode

as Self - danseuse et modèle (archive footage)

Théophile Delcassé

as Self - homme politique (archive footage)

Gabrielle Dorziat

as Self (archive footage)

Dranem

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Déroulède

as Self - auteur et militant politique (archive footage)

Armand Fallières

as Self (archive footage)

Félix Galipaux

as Self (archive footage)

Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier

as Self - évêque de Versailles (archive footage)

André Gide

as Self (archive footage)

Lucien Guitry

as Self (archive footage)

Firmin Gémier

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Jaurès

as Self (archive footage)

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

as Self (archive footage) (as Emperor Wilhelm II)

King Alfonso XIII of Spain

as Self (archive footage)

Aristide Maillol

as Self (archive footage)

Marie Marlin-Poirier

as Self - reine des reines de Paris 1901 (archive footage)

Charles Maurras

as Self (archive footage)

Nellie Melba

as Self (archive footage)

Arthur Meyer

as Self - patron de presse et écrivain (archive footage)

Mistinguett

as Self (archive footage)

Claude Monet

as Self (archive footage)

Montéhus

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Mounet

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Mounet-Sully

as Self (archive footage)

Carolina Otero

as Self (archive footage)

Gaston Ouvrard

as Self (archive footage)

Emmeline Pankhurst

as Self (archive footage)

Charles Pathé

as Self (archive footage)

Raymond Poincaré

as Self (archive footage)

Polaire

as Self (archive footage)

Marcelle Praince

as Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen

as Self (archive footage)

Marcel Prévost

as Self (archive footage)

Auguste Renoir

as Self (archive footage)

Gaston Rivierre

as Self - coureur cycliste (archive footage)

Gabrielle Robinne

as Self (archive footage)

Auguste Rodin

as Self (archive footage)

Madeleine Roques

as Self - actrice de la Comédie-Française (archive footage)

Gabrielle Réjane

as Self (archive footage)

Camille Saint-Saëns

as Self (archive footage)

Sem

as Self - caricaturiste (archive footage)

Eugène Silvain

as Self (archive footage)

Cécile Sorel

as Self (archive footage)

Leo Tolstoy

as Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

as Self (archive footage)

Duchesse d'Uzès

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Valéry

as Self (archive footage)

Pierre Veber

as Self (archive footage)

René Viviani

as Self (archive footage)

Monty Woolley

as Narrator, US version (voice)

Ferdinand Zecca

as Self (archive footage)