Princesse Mandane
1928 · 74 min · ★ 7.0 · Adventure
Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.
Directed by Germaine Dulac
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Cast
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Edmonde Guy Mandane -
Ernst Van Duren Étienne Pindère - J Jacques Arnna Gerys-Kahn
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Mona Goya Simoun -
Yvonne Legeay - P Paul Lorbert
- V Valenti Colino Azime Electropoulos
- G Gérard de Wibo Michel Voraguine
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Christian Gérard - B Brindusa Grozavescu Lily de Thorigny
- S Sylvie Mai Anna
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Edmond van Daële
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I evoke a dancing woman. A woman? No. A bouncing line with harmonious rhythm. I evoke a luminous projection on veils ! Precise matter! No. Fluid rhythms. Why should one disregard, on screen, the pleasure that movement brings us in the theatre? Harmony of lines. Harmony of light. Lines, surfaces, volumes evolving directly, without the artifice of evocation, in the logic of its forms, dispossessed of any overly human sense, allowing an elevation towards the abstract, thus giving more space to sensations and to dreams : integral cinema. —Germaine Dulac
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