Antonin Artaud

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​   Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career.

Most Popular Antonin Artaud Trailers

Total trailers found: 36

Wooden Crosses Trailer (1932)

17 March 1932

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

The Threepenny Opera Trailer (1931)

08 June 1931

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.

L'Argent Trailer (1928)

25 December 1928

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

The Passion of Joan of Arc Trailer (1928)

21 April 1928

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior.

Lucrezia Borgia Trailer (1935)

20 December 1935

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare.

Bonaparte et la révolution Trailer (1972)

24 November 1972

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this version.

Mater Dolorosa Trailer (1933)

06 January 1933

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife.

Napoleon Trailer (1927)

10 January 1927

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Sidonie Panache Trailer (1934)

19 October 1934

In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.

Liliom Trailer (1934)

15 May 1934

Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid.

The Torture of Silence Trailer (1917)

06 March 1917

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your average romantic-triangle tale.

Crimson Dynasty Trailer (1935)

04 December 1935

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay.

Mathusalem Trailer (1927)

06 November 1927

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd.

Napoléon Bonaparte Trailer (1935)

05 November 1935

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Tarakanova Trailer (1930)

18 March 1930

Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord.

A Look at Madness Trailer (1962)

02 January 1962

The daily life of patients and the work of doctors, including Dr. François Tosquelles, at the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban in Lozère.

Seans : hommage á Antonin Artaud Trailer (1977)

07 February 1977

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and audience.

Le Juif Errant Trailer (1926)

24 December 1926

Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a Frenchman married to a Polish Jew is assassinated by members of a secret society.

Around the End of the World Trailer (1930)

31 December 1930

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

Disorder Is 20 Years Old Trailer (1967)

06 June 1967

Bajazet - Considering the Theatre and the Plague Trailer (2019)

04 December 2019

Frank Castorf has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it comes to this classical French author, the tragedy of existence is born from collusions between private passions and power.

Verdun, memories of history Trailer (1931)

06 November 1931

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

Despair Trailer (1978)

20 September 1978

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

The Seashell and the Clergyman Trailer (1928)

09 February 1928

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Artaud and the Tarahumaras Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras (from 1977 to 1994) on the track of Antonin Artaud, in Norogachic, the only place explicitly mentioned by Antonin Artaud.

Coup de feu à l'aube Trailer (1932)

17 August 1932

A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader.

News Item Trailer (1923)

01 December 1923

An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages which create psychological constructs that unfold a Parisian love affair which turns into a threesome of great emotion and consequences.

Verdun: Visions of History Trailer (1928)

08 November 1928

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

Graziella Trailer (1926)

23 July 1926

During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella.

Surcouf Trailer (1925)

13 February 1925

Based on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.

The Child King Trailer (1923)

26 October 1923

An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his life at the Conciergerie during the Revolution, and his untimely death.

Exhalación: Vida y muerte de De La Puríssima Trailer (2019)

31 December 2019

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show, Exhalación: vida y muerte de De La Puríssima.

L'enfant de ma soeur Trailer (1933)

13 January 1933

Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law.

La Femme d'une nuit Trailer (1930)

16 June 1930

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the Princess of Lystrie.

Émile en ce miroir Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

Faubourg Montmartre Trailer (1931)

02 October 1931

Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.