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LILLIAN GISH

By Jeanne MOREAU

CARLOTTA FILMS - as SALES World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, World

Documentary - Completed 1983

WHEN THE FREEST OF FRENCH ACTRESSES WENT
BEHIND THE CAMERA

- Year of production
- 1983
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography, Female director
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 59 mn
- Director(s)
- Jeanne MOREAU
- Cast
- Lillian GISH, Jeanne MOREAU
- Synopsis
- A tribute to Lillian Gish by Jeanne Moreau, where one
  actress pays homage to another. The American silent film star looks back on her career since her début in 1913, and evokes the filming conditions when she was a child, the first Hollywood blockbuster Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith and her passion for cinema, guided by an insatiable curiosity…