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La Roue Overview:

La Roue (1923) was a Foreign Films - Film directed by Abel Gance and produced by Abel Gance and Charles Pathé.

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La Roue

By Michael on Oct 24, 2015 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Note : this review is a contribution to The Silent Cinema blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Lauren Champkin. La roue (Abel Gance, 1923) Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby... Read full article

La roue (1923, Abel Gance)

on Mar 19, 2012 From The Stop Button

Gance is very ambitious with La roue, only not so much technically. Even the second half of the film, which opens up considerably (the first half takes place in a train yard, mostly on one set, while the second half moves the action to a idyllic mountaintop), Gance is far more concerned his protagon... Read full article

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La Roue Facts
Abel Gance came up with the idea for this film the day his wife, Ida Denis, was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Gance completed editing on the 32 reel film on 9 April 1924, hours after Denis died.
This film was originally released with a running time of 8 hours, 32 minutes. It was edited down to just over 5 hours for general release.
Included among the '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
Was the first feature film to end with a freeze frame.
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