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Les comédiens derrière la toile (1909)
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Around a sumptuous table, served by brilliant servants, Louis XIV and his court supped. One stage: At a wine merchant's house, Louis - The exploits of Escarbignac, provocations, duels, brilliant feats of arms take place: behind the canvas,...See moreAround a sumptuous table, served by brilliant servants, Louis XIV and his court supped. One stage: At a wine merchant's house, Louis - The exploits of Escarbignac, provocations, duels, brilliant feats of arms take place: behind the canvas, Escarbignac, cowardly and cowardly, is beaten up by the stagehands. - A poor orphan girl passes onto the stage. She dies of hunger and misery and begs in vain for pity from passers-by. The curtain falls. The poor orphan sups with champagne at Paillard's and a crowd of worshipers gravitate around the star - At the theater, here is the king of gold, the businessman, to whom the veins of gold from big companies come to flow . Here he is in life, a bohemian without credit, sweating poverty and starving. Heartbreaking or farcical antitheses, chimeras and reality, with which the lives of actors teem, in the theater and... behind the screen. Written by Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé See less