Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theatres
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Pandora's Box BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  J’Accuse (1919)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 
 
  Frame enlargement: Eye Film Instituut Nederland;
courtesy Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.
 
 
J’Accuse
(I Accuse)
Also known as Ich klage an in Germany, Per la patria in Italy, Yo acuso in Spain, I Accuse in the USA
(1919) France
B&W : Feature film
Directed by

Cast: Marise Dauvray [Edith Laurin], Séverin-Mars [François Laurin], Romuald Joubé [Jean Diaz], Maxime Desjardins [Maria Lazare], Angèle Guys [Angèle]. Mancini [Jean’s mother], Elizabeth Nizan, Pierre Danis

Le Film d’Art production; distributed by Pathé Frères. / Produced by Charles Pathé. Scenario by Abel Gance and Blaise Cendrars. Assistant director, Blaise Cendrars. Cinematography by Léonce-Henri Burel, Marc Bujard and Maurice Forster. / Released 25 April 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Japan on 6 September 1920. The film was edited and released in the USA by United Artists Corporation on 9 October 1921.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive [35mm nitrate positive (color-tinted), 35mm restoration negative (completed 2009), 35mm restoration positive (color-tinted, struck 2009)]; and in a private film collection [Pathé 9.5mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Crime: Rape - Love triangles - Soldiers

Listing updated: 27 November 2010.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 163-164; Brownlow-Parade pp. 518, 531, 532-534, 537, 538-539, 541, 542; Everson-American p. 14; Sarris-Sternberg p. 6; Sinyard-Silent p. 150; Taylor-Hitchcock p. 41 : FilmmuseumNews-1 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  J’Accuse (1919)
 
Late Mathias Pascal BD
Become a Patron of Silent Era

LINKS IN THIS COLUMN
WILL TAKE YOU TO
EXTERNAL WEBSITES

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

Napoléon Region-B BD

La Roue DVD

Little Rascals Vol 1 BD

Beloved Rogue BD

Hitchcock: Beginning BD

Cat and the Canary Standard BD

Charley Chase 1927 BD

Capra at Columbia UHD/BD