Les Visiteurs: La Révolution (2016) Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Comedy
aka: The Visitors: Bastille Day
Film Synopsis
Once more lured into the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his
faithful vassal Jacquouille end up being thrown into one of the most turbulent
and bloody periods in the history of France: the French revolution.
Just their luck to arrive at the time when Robespierre's Reign of Terror
is well underway and heads are falling like autumn leaves. It so happens
that the descendents of Jacquouille La Fripouille are diehard revolutionaries
who have confiscated the château and all the personal effects of the
descendents of Godefroy de Montmirail, a breed of arrogant aristocrats whose
worthless lives hang by the thinnest of threads...
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.