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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Directed by Abel Gance. Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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.
