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Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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La Coquille et le clergyman
(The Seashell and the Clergyman)
(1928) France
B&W : Short film
Directed by Germaine Dulac
Cast: Alex Allin [the clergyman], Genica Athanasiou [the woman], Lucien Bataille [the officer]
Délia Film production. / Scenario by Antonin Artaud. Consultant, Yvonne Allendy. Assistant director, Louis Ronjat. Cinematography by Paul Parguel. Camera operator, Paul Guichard. / Premiered 9 February 1928 in Paris, France. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1929. / Silent film.
Experimental.
Survival status: Print exists in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 8 January 2025.
References: Bardèche-History p. 238; Cowie-Seventy p. ?; Robertson-British p. 186; Sinyard-Silent p. 168 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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