Short film
Eugénie Grandet
1910 · 10 min
A short, static silent-era drama that feels like a staged tableaux, asking patience as it slowly unfolds a grim tale of money and family ruin.
- Directed by
- Émile Chautard, Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Suzanne Revonne, Jacques Guilhène, Charles Krauss
- Overview
- Eugenie Grandet has discovered where her father, a miserable old miser, keeps his treasure. Eugenie's cousin, Charles, is the bearer of a letter from his father to his uncle, Eugenie's father. The letter informs the miser that Charles' father, his only brother, is reduced to a state of utter ruin, and unless he can obtain immediate help, he contemplates suicide.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Greed, family, betrayal
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Émile Chautard, Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Suzanne Revonne, Jacques Guilhène, Charles Krauss
