The films of
Charles Dullin


Le Joueur d'échecs (1927)
Raymond Bernard
  Les Misérables (1933)
Raymond Bernard
  Le Briseur de chaînes (1941)
Jacques Daniel-Norman
 
     
Despite its comparative obscurity, Le Joueur d’échecs is one of the great cinematic achievements of the silent era, a sumptuous blend of historical wartime epic...  [More...]   Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables, regarded by many as the most important literary work from France, has provided the source for numerous film...  [More...]  
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Volpone (1941)
Maurice Tourneur
  Les Jeux sont faits (1947)
Jean Delannoy
  Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
 
     
One of the finest French language adaptations of an English play, Volpone should be regarded as nothing less than a masterpiece of filmed theatrical farce...  [More...]   Les Jeux sont faits is one of a number of great French films made in the 1940s which have never really achieved the viewership and recognition they deserve...  [More...]   After his three year suspension following the storm that his earlier film, Le Corbeau , unleashed, Clouzot returned to French cinema with a magnificently crafted detective thriller...  [More...]