1848 (documentary)

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Movie
German title 1848
Original title La Révolution de 1848
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1950
length 20 minutes
Rod
Director Marguerite de la Mure
Victoria Mercanton
production Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français
music Guy Bernard
camera André Dumaître
cut Pierre Courtade
occupation

1848 (Original title: La Révolution de 1848 ) is a French documentary - short film , which was built by Marguerite de la Mure and Victoria Mercanton in 1949 and at the Oscar ceremony in 1950 was nominated for an Oscar.

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"Citizen King" Louis-Philippe

In the manner of an iconography, the film shows drawings, prints, engravings and caricatures, paintings and documents by artists such as Honoré Daumier , Eugène Delacroix or Paul Gavarni who recorded the history of the revolution of 1848 , with which the rule of the liberal "bourgeois king" Louis-Philippe of Orléans was ended, which in the further course of the revolution led to the nephew of the former emperor Napoleon Bonaparte , Louis Napoléon Bonaparte , becoming the new president.

Production, publication

The film was produced by the Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français / French Cinema General Cooperative.

In the United Kingdom, the film was released on March 23, 1950 under the title Eighteen Forty-Eight for the first time. In Belgium he was presented in July 1950 in Knokke at the Quinzaine du Cinéma Français.

Award

The Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français was nominated for an Oscar for the film in the category Best Documentary Short at the 1950 Academy Awards, but was subject to the short documentaries A Chance to Live by Richard De Rochemont and So Much for So Little by Edward Selzer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1848 (1950) at letterboxd.com (English)
  2. ↑ The 22nd Academy Awards | 1950 at oscars.org (English)