Henri Pouctal

Henri Pouctal is a French film producer of the silent film born in 1859 with the Ferté-sous-Jouarre, and deceased on February 3rd 1922 with Paris.

It fell, it should well be said, in the oubliettes of the history, and yet he was a very large scenario writer. He was initially actor, before joining André Antoine, the defender of the theater naturalist, on the small scene of the Free Théâtre.

Biography

Henri Pouctal begins really his cinematographic career as assistant from André Calmettes and Charles Bargy for the turning of the film the Assassination of the duke of Own way (production the Film of Art). Until 1914, it carries to the screen several literary works, in particular like the Lady with the camellias (1912) with Sarah Bernhardt, like some historical subjects. During the First World War, it takes part in patriotic productions like the Nurse (1914), Dette of hatred (1915), the Girl of Boche (1915), France initially (1915), Alsace (1916) or Chantecoq (1916). At this period, it carries out several episodes drawn from the novel of Alexandre Dumas, the Count of Assembles-Cristo (1917), which consolidate its reputation, but the excellent adaptation of, To work , according to Emile Zola, enables him to reach the top of its Article the first of the seven chapters of this work to the realistic harmony left in room to Paris the January 16th 1920. This ambitious film engaged of the considerable capital for the time but Henri shows that a popular French cinema of quality, is possible.

Catalog of films

External bond

  • Henri Pouctal on Internet Movie Database

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