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07 June 2025 Anères (France)
Festival du Cinéma muet d'Anères: The Workers of the Sea
Chamber trio - Festival venue
Program Info: Machines : Elsa Martinez Electric guitar : Marie Olaya Electric bass : Antoine Ferris
The Workers of the Sea by André Antoine with Romuald Joubé, Armand Tallier, Marc Gérard 1918 / France / 1h33 / DCP Copy: Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation . 4K restoration carried out in 2020 at L'Image Retrouvée by the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation and the Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC
A drunken sailor terrorizes his young orphaned niece, Gudule. She runs away and finds refuge with gypsies. But her happiness is short-lived, as her benefactors soon attract the wrath of a peasant. Fortunately for Gudule, her beauty has moved a young man, who tries to protect her...
Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea , written in Guernsey and published in 1866, had never been adapted for the cinema when André Antoine took it up in 1917. [...] Fleeing Paris during the war, André Antoine took advantage of his Breton exodus to transpose the story to Camaret-sur-mer. Antoine was not the first to have had inclinations to explore Breton soil cinematographically. From 1908 onwards, numerous operators were sent to Brittany to capture the picturesque nature of the region. The director gives the landscape its full role in his film. We recognize the Crozon Peninsula and its surroundings, but it is also the many local amateur actors who contribute to the picturesque nature of the film. Gustave Simon, Hugo's heir, did not fail to congratulate the director upon the film's release: "You have masterfully translated The Toilers of the Sea onto the screen. There is a penetrating breath of poetry throughout the film. You have succeeded in translating the atmosphere of the novel through energy, drawing inspiration from the captions of Victor Hugo's own text. It is a fine lesson in art." Manon Billaut, Institut Jean Vigo
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