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Abel Gance

Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).

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entertainment · French film director and producer · screenwriter · film actor · film director · film producer · film editor · director · also Abel Gance, Gance

Born 25 October 1889 · Died 10 November 1981 · Q313572

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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (1981).
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2024· 2 entries

Jul 3, 2024Documented record69% confidence

FirstShowing.net: New Trailer for Abel Gance's 'Napoléon' Full 7-Hour-Long Restoration

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Apr 18, 2024Documented record69% confidence

Deadline.com: Abel Gance’s ‘Napoléon,’ Restored Over 16 Years, To Open Cannes Classics Before Heading To Netflix

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2023· 3 entries

Sep 10, 2023Documented record69% confidence

PBS: Abel Gance: Forgotten Genius

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Jul 3, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Moviefone: Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow - Full Cast and Crew

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May 26, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Moviefone: Abel Gance et son Napoléon

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2016· 3 entries

Apr 10, 2016Documented record69% confidence

Hyperallergic: A Dying Society: Abel Gance’s 'End of the World'

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Jan 28, 2016Documented record69% confidence

IndieWire: Abel Gance’s Epic ‘Napoleon’ Is Making an Epic Comeback

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Jan 27, 2016Documented record69% confidence

The Film Stage: Abel Gance’s Silent Classic ‘Napoleon’ Receives Massive Restoration for Theatrical Release

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1981· 2 entries

Nov 10, 1981Documented record86% confidence

Died 1981-11-10.

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Jun 15, 1981Documented record84% confidence

Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (1981).

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1932· 1 entry

1932Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Tried to demonstrate his credentials as a reliable and efficient director by filming a remake of Mater dolorosa which he completed within 18 days and within budget

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1927· 1 entry

1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Abel Gance exclaimed enthusiastically, 'Shakespeare, Rembrandt, and Beethoven will all make films

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1921· 1 entry

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Gance visited America to promote J'accuse

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1920· 1 entry

1920Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gance developed his next project, La Roue, while recuperating in Nice from Spanish flu, and its progress was deeply affected by the knowledge that his companion Ida Danis was dying of tuberculosis; furthermore, his leadi

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1919· 1 entry

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Suggested Gance's pacifist and anti-establishment attitude, the reactions to Napoléon in 1927 saw greater ambivalence, and some commentators even judged it to be an apologia for dictatorship

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1917· 1 entry

1917Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Gance was finally drafted into the army, in its Service Cinématographique, an episode which proved futile and short-lived, but it deepened his preoccupation with the impact of the war and the depression which was caused

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1915· 1 entry

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Started writing and directing for a new film company, Le Film d'art

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1912· 1 entry

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To Mathilde Thizeau; in 1922 to Marguerite Danis (sister of Ida); and in 1933 to Marie-Odette Vérité (Sylvie Grenade), who died in 1978

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1911· 1 entry

1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

With La Digue (ou Pour sauver la Hollande), a historical film which featured the first screen appearance of Pierre Renoir

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1909· 1 entry

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Acted in his first film, Perret's Molière

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1889· 2 entries

Oct 25, 1889Documented record86% confidence

Born 1889-10-25.

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1889Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working-class mother, Françoise Péréthon (or Perthon)

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