Paul Capellani
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Paul Capellani.
Born: September 9, 1877
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Le Bercail
Evelyne attempts to reconnect with her family after a traumatizing experience with a young writer.
Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp
The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.
The Girl from Arles
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
L'Assommoir
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is about the free fall of a group of working-class French folk into degradation and tragedy due to carelessness, jealousy, and alcohol abuse. At the time of its release, L'Assommoir was hugely successful.
The Reign of Terror
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine/ Moreover, Lindey finds himself involved in the plot...
Germinal
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
Montargis' Dog
The aristocrat Macaire, out of jealousy, plans to ambush his comrade Montargis because the King favors him.
Don Juan
Pathé's version of José Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio.
The Death of the Duke of Enghien in 1804
Directed by Albert Capellani.
Camille
Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Filmography
as Robert Chapelain
as Constantinopoulos
as Paul Dorsenne
as Felix
as Louis Moreau
as Querida
as Dr. Mulford
as Dr. Mario Martinez
as Rudolphe
as Don Armada
as Armand Duval
as Sadoul
as Rodolphe
as Robert the Bruce
as Frédéric