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Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
Starring | Philippe Hériat Blanche Bernis Nina Chousvalowa Clifford McLaglen |
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Running time | 45 min. |
Country | France |
Languages | Silent film French intertitles |
Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 experimental silent film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes.[1][2][3]
Other noted examples of the city-symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929).[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Rien que les Heures (1926)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016.
- ^ "Rien Que Les Heures (1926) - Alberto Cavalcanti | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
- ^ "Rien Que Les Heures (Nothing But the Hours) (France, 1926) | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
- ^ "Where to begin with city symphonies". British Film Institute.
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