40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Cast
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")
Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")
Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist
(segment "Liv Ullman")
Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Neil Jordan
(segment "John Boorman")
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Spike Lee
Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
David Lynch
Self
Zhang Yimou
Self
Jacques Rivette
Self
Crew
John Boorman
Director
Michael Haneke
Director
Costa-Gavras
Director
Wim Wenders
Director
Raymond Depardon
Director
David Lynch
Director
Lasse Hallström
Director
Cédric Klapisch
Director
Claude Lelouch
Director
Alain Corneau
Director
Francis Girod
Director
Spike Lee
Director
Vicente Aranda
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Director
Theo Angelopoulos
Director
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Fernando Trueba
Director
Hugh Hudson
Director
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director
Zhang Yimou
Director
Ismail Merchant
Director
Sarah Moon
Director, Director of Photography
Arthur Penn
Director
Bigas Luna
Director
Nadine Trintignant
Director
Jerry Schatzberg
Director
Merzak Allouache
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
Claude Miller
Director
Gaston Kaboré
Director
Jaco Van Dormael
Director
Gabriel Axel
Director
Jacques Rivette
Director
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Director
James Ivory
Director
Patrice Leconte
Director
Peter Greenaway
Director
Liv Ullmann
Director
Régis Wargnier
Director
Youssef Chahine
Director
Lucian Pintilie
Director
Roger Ikhlef
Editor
Timothy Miller
Editor
Sven Nykvist
Director of Photography
Didier Ferry
Director of Photography
Jean-Yves Le Mener
Director of Photography
Frédéric LeClair
Director of Photography
Philippe Poulet
Director of Photography, Idea
Anne Andreu
Executive Producer, Art Direction
Neal Edelstein
Producer
Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Producer
Humbert Balsan
Associate Producer
Søren Stærmose
Co-Producer
Ángel Amigo
Co-Producer
Françoise Nicolet
Costume Design
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Music
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