Vendémiaire

Vendémiaire (1919)

Drama

If you’re already familiar with Louis Feuillade, his little-known opus Vendémiaire may come as a surprise. Unlike the bulk of his work which was characterised as ‘Fantastic Realism’, Vendémiaire is wonderfully down-to-earth realism – or down-to-French-earth realism to be specific. The film itself is divided into four chapters, the titles of which suggest that this is a movie about the cultivation and consumption of wine. But as the narrative unfolds, it becomes clear that the cultivation and consumption of wine is an allegory for French culture and French land as a whole, and the real purpose of the film is to persuade the director’s fellow citizens to defend that spirit and those lands at all costs. It’s September 1918 and the war is coming to an end, but here on the Castelviel estate in the south of France the news has not yet arrived and everyone is busy with the grape harvest....

Director: Louis Feuillade

Casts

	René Cresté as Pierre Bertin
	Édouard Mathé as Capitaine de Castelviel
	Louis Leubas as Wilfrid
	Mary Harald as Sara la bohémienne
	Lugane as Marthe
	Fabiola as Marie
	Adeline de La Croix as Mme de Castelviel
	Manuel Caméré as Fritz
	Georges Biscot as Bernadou
	Jeanne Rollette as
	Émile André as
	Violette Jyl as
	Olinda Mano as
	Gaston Michel as
	André Séchan as

Crew