Rien que les heures

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Rien que les heures
Rien que les heures.jpg
Opening title
Directed byAlberto Cavalcanti
StarringPhilippe Hériat
Blanche Bernis
Nina Chousvalowa
Clifford McLaglen
Release date
  • 1926 (1926)
Running time
45 min.
CountryFrance
LanguagesSilent film
French intertitles

Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 experimental silent film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes.[1][2][3]

Other noted examples of the city-symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929).[4]

See also[]

  • List of films made in France 1919-1940

References[]

  1. ^ "Rien que les Heures (1926)". BFI.
  2. ^ "Rien Que Les Heures (1926) - Alberto Cavalcanti | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
  3. ^ "Rien Que Les Heures (Nothing But the Hours) (France, 1926) | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
  4. ^ "Where to begin with city symphonies". British Film Institute.

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