Charles Mosnier
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bordeaux, France
Birthday: April 16, 1865
Deathday: September 13, 1924
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Pasteur
Overview: Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important figures of medical microbiology, blends biographical drama with scientific recreations of his experiments, using Pasteur's actual instruments.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Wedding Trunk
Overview: Max wants to marry his girl but one man stands in the way. Her guardian. And Max got to find a way to get him to consent.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-18
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The Guilty One
Overview: Directed by René Leprince.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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Les Travailleurs de la mer
Overview: Adapted from Hugo's eponym novel, the story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whomever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows both his physical trials and tribulations.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1918-03-03
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La Tosca
Overview: Rome, June 1800. Floria Tosca is a celebrated opera singer, better known as La Tosca. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bomapartist sympathizer. When the latter helps Angelotti, the leader of the opposition, to escape from prison and hides him in La Tosca's home, he antagonizes Baron Scarpia, the ruthless chief of police, all the more as his love for Tosca is unrequited. Scarpia has Mario arrested and condemned to death. Upset, Floria begs the Baron for her lover's life. He accepts to have the bullets of the firing squad replaced by blanks if... she sleeps with him. She agrees nominally but when she finds herself with Scarpia, she stabs him to death. She then goes to see Mario in his cell and lets him know about his phony execution. But Scarpia had had time to get the order reversed and in the early hours of the morning, Mario is executed in the proper manner. In despair, Tosca throws herself into the void...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-14
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Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Overview: Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck, and entertains no wish of marrying him, though her mother is anxious to see her make the alliance. The parents finally manage to bring the young people together, and they, in turn, exert all their skill in an attempt to disgust each other. An accidental meeting between the two when they are off guard causes them to change their minds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-12-11
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A Bald Lie
Overview: John Jones has a bald head and a jealous wife, which, to say the least, is a very bad combination. Also John has a long thirst and is very fond of the society of pretty young ladies. This leads to many unhappy occurrences in his home, and finally to a catastrophe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-07-10
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Crainquebille
Overview: Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protests, Crainquebille is arrested, supposedly for swearing at the policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-11-15
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Max as a Musician
Overview: Max loves a charming girl to distraction, but her father declares that his daughter shall never marry anyone but a musician. Max tries his hand at all kinds of instruments, only to fail lamentably. Eventually, he bluffs the professor by using a mechanical instrument, only to have his clever trick discovered on the evening of his betrothal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-12-12
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