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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse. It was released in 1923. The film used then-revolutionary lighting techniques, and rapid scene changes and cuts.
An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (“The Wheel”) has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
The Wheel: Directed by Abel Gance. With Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars. A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
- (2.6K)
- Drama
- Abel Gance
- 1923-02-17
Mar 9, 2015 · Duration: 4 hours 34 minutes. Availability: Limited + Show. Presented by Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection. Taken to its bare bones, LA ROUE (The Wheel) deals with Sisif, a locomotive engineer who saves Norma, an infant girl, from a train wreck and raises her as his adopted daughter.
- 5 min
- Flicker Alley
Sep 29, 2023 · La roue met the fate of so many films of its era, cut down—by Gance himself—for international distribution, with great swaths lost to far-flung archives.
An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s La roue has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
Starring Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone. An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (“The Wheel”) has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
