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La Poupée (1897)
Directed by Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
Comedy · 1m
La Poupée is a series of three short films inspired from a comedy in four acts of the same name by Edmond Audran, performed for the first time at the Théâtre de la Gaieté in Paris on 21 October 1896. Young Lancelot, a novice from a very poor convent, is forced to marry to be entitled to an inheritance from his rich uncle. The prior, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity, finds a solution. The novice will marry an automaton and return to the convent. But a real young woman, the daughter of the automatized mannequins maker, decides to take the place of the doll.
Cast
Leopoldo Fregoli
Crew
- Director
- Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
Details
- Release date
- 1897-01-01
- Runtime
- 1m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Lumière