Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois
- Original title
- Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois
- Year
- 2004
- Running time
- 210 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Henri Alekan
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Catherine Allegret
- Miklós Jancsó
- Jo Amorin
- Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Pierre Cardin
- François Barat
- Robert Hossein
- Éric Rohmer
- Henri Colpi
- Raphaël Bassan
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- Music
- Cinematography
Jérôme Blumberg, Jacques Richard (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Movie Documentary. Biography
- Synopsis
- Organized mostly chronologically, the film presents the 40-year career of Henri Langlois (1914-1977), film's first archivist, and the creator of the Cinémathèque Française and Musée du Cinéma. Talking heads, film clips and stills, and archival interviews with Langlois trace his life from 1935, when he starts the Circle of Cinema film club. He begins to buy films, saving many from destruction. During World War II, he finds places to hide them. By mid-1944, the Cinémathèque has 50,000 films. He runs afoul of bureaucrats, but the New Wave comes to his defense. The museum opens in 1972. The film celebrates his philosophy and beliefs, personality and dedication, and his vision.
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