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Abel Gance
Abel Gance (; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and 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 the monumental "Napoléon" (1927).
Early life.
Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother,
1915: "La Folie du docteur Tube", directed by Abel Gance
- 1917: "Mater dolorosa" ("The Torture of Silence"), directed by Abel Gance
- 1918: "La Dixième Symphonie" ("The Tenth Symphony"), directed by Abel Gance
- 1919: "J'accuse", directed by Abel Gance
- 1921: "La Roue", directed by Abel Gance
- 1922: "Crainquebille", directed by Jacques Feyder
- 1925: "Visages d'enfants