Abel Hans

The illegitimate son of a wealthy doctor Abel Flamant and Francoise Pereton. Mother was married to Adolf Hans.

Before making an acting career in theater and cinema, Hans worked as an assistant lawyer. Since 1908, Abel Hans performed in the theater ( Paris , Brussels ). He wrote two tragedies . He made his film debut in 1909 as an actor in the film Moliere by Leon Perret . Wrote a book of poems "Finger on the keyboard." Then he enjoys writing scripts. The first picture, "Dam" (La Digue), shot in 1911 . During this period, Hans wrote the script and, using distorting lenses and mirrors to create the effect of hallucinations, he shot the short film "Dr. Tyub's Madness" 1915 about the delirious visions of the scientist. He also continued to make films and experiment with lighting, editing, and camera. After the failure of this film, he put on a dozen more paintings. Among them, the serial film "Barbarossa" gained popularity among viewers.

He was a partner of Max Linder in many films. In 1910 he wrote scripts for Louis Feyad , Albert Capellani , Camille de Marlon .

In 1914 he was mobilized in the army. Filmed propaganda films (Paddy's Heroism (1915), Stras and K (1915), Deadly Gas (1916)).

The most significant films by Hans made after 1917 include “Mother of the Sorrowful (Mater Dolorosa)”, “Tenth Symphony”, “I Blame”, “Wheel”.

In 1927 he staged Napoleon , where he himself played the role of Saint-Just. The film is conceived as a trilogy , but Hans does not find the funds for the next two parts. 1929 - the third part of the trilogy is staged by Lupu Peak : " Napoleon on St. Helena ." In 1936 it was dubbed, and in 1971 the second, revised edition was released. English historian Kevin Brownlow managed to recreate the most complete version, which made a splash in New York in 1981.

“Critics eagerly emphasized the ambivalence of Hans’s work, where grandeur and squalor, pomp and lyricism, pathos and primitive symbolism, imagination and technical ingenuity, which he often abuses,“ an abundance of innovations, along with miserable cliches and bad taste “…” (L. Mussinak)

The first laureate of the 1974 National Grand Prix in the field of cinema, Abel Gans won in 1980 the Cesar honorary prize.

After the release of the film “I Accuse”, Mussinak wrote about him that he must either be completely accepted or completely rejected.

• 1939 - Nominee at the Mussolini Cup of the Venice Film Festival for the film “ Lady with Camellias ” / La Dame aux camelias
• 1981 - SEP Gold Medal

• 1911 - Dam / La Digue
• 1912 - Footprints on the ceiling / Il ya des pieds au plafond
• 1912 - Philosopher's Stone / La Pierre philosophe
• 1912 - Mask of Horror / Le Masque d'horreur
• 1912 - White Negro / Le Negre blanc
• 1915 - Flower of the Ruins / La Fleur des ruines
• 1915 - Madness of Dr. Tube / La Folie du docteur Tube
• 1915 - The Mystery of the Ten Hours / L'Enigme de dix heures
• 1915 - Heroism Paddy / L'Heroisme de Paddy
• 1915 - Strass and company / Strass et Compagnie
• 1915 - Drama in the castle of d'Acre / Un drame au château d'Acre
• 1916 - What the Waves Tell / Ce que les flots racontent
• 1916 - Embellishments / Fioritures
• 1916 - Crazy from the Cliff / Le Fou de la falaise
• 1916 - Periscope / Le Périscope
• 1916 - Deadly Gases / Les Gaz mortels
• 1917 - Barbarousse / Barberousse
• 1917 - The Zone of Death / La Zone de la mort
• 1917 - The Right to Life / Le Droit à la vie
• 1917 - The Mourning Mother / Mater Dolorosa
• 1918 - Cece Man / Ecce Homo
• 1918 - Tenth Symphony / La Dixième Symphonie
• 1919 - I Blame / J'accuse
• 1923 - Wheel / La Roue
• 1924 - To the rescue! / Au secours!
• 1927 - Napoleon
• 1928 - Marines and Crystals / Marines et cristeaux (f / m)
• 1931 - The End of the World / La fin du monde
• 1932 - The Mourning Mother / Mater Dolorosa
• 1933 - Forge Master / Le Maître de forges (with Fernand River)
• 1934 - Lady with Camellias / La Dame aux camélias (with Fernand River)
• 1934 - The Payak / Poliche
• 1935 - Jerome Perrault, hero of the barricade / Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades
• 1935 - A novel about a poor young man / Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
• 1935 - Lucrece Borgia
• 1935 - Napoleon
• 1937 - Beethoven's Great Love / Un grand amour de Beethoven
• 1938 - I blame! / J'accuse
• 1938 - The Thief of Women / Le voleur de femmes
• 1939 - Louise
• 1940 - Paradise Lost / Paradis perdu
• 1941 - Blind Venus / Vénus aveugle
• 1943 - Captain Fracasse / Le Capitaine Fracasse
• 1953 - Fourteenth of July / Quatorze juillet (documentary)
• 1955 - Nelskaya Tower / La tour de Nesle
• 1956 - Magirama
• 1960 - Battle of Austerlitz
• 1964 - Cyrano and D'Artagnan / Cyrano et d'Artagnan
• 1966 - Marie Tudor ( Marie Tudor )
• 1971 - Bonaparte and the Revolution / Bonaparte et la révolution

• 1958 , October: “Cathedral of the Ashes” / “La Cathédrale de cendres”, based on the play by Berta Dominguez D. ( Spanish: Berta Dominguez D. ), actors: Tanya Balashova , Gianni Esposito , Antoine Balpetre , Roque Carbajo ( Spanish: Roque Carbajo ) and others, - Theater " Alliance Francaise ", Paris ^{[1] [2]}

• Bibliography (Fr.)
• Komarov V. History of foreign cinema. M.: Art, 1965. Volume 1. A silent movie .
• Movie. World History. / F.Kemp. - M.: Magma, 2013.

• Abel Gance on the Internet Movie Database
• Special issue of the film magazine "1895" dedicated to the director - "Abel Gance, nouveaux regards", revue 1895, n ° 31 (French)