Marseillaise

Duration: 8 reels

Genre: Foreign Language Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Credits: Renoir

Description: French dialogue with super-imposed English titles. Marseillaise tells, on a broad tapestry, the fascinating story of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and of the revolt of the French people. According to many critics, this film is the first authentic motion picture version of this historic struggle. The New York Herald Tribune says: "A rich screen pageant . . . passages of splendid authority and dramatic conviction . . . powerful . . . as fine as anything I have ever seen dealing with the period . . . re-illuminates a stirring and portentous event and the people who made it so . . . M. Renoir has recaptured the spirit of the French Revolution in remarkable fashion." (Recommended for curriculum enrichment.)

Metadata Source:Ideal Pictures Corporation Motion Picture Catalog, 1940-1941