"Langlois knew Paul-Auguste Harlé , editor of The Film French, to whom he had come to present my poster design. The result was qu'Harlé we gave ten thousand francs to buy copies in distress and we had recommended to Alexander Kamenka, who runs the company Albatross. Different stocks came later enrich the collections of the film library, but the stock Albatros consisted only of quality films: Epstein, Dulac, L'Herbier, Renoir, Clair, the Russian Ecole de Paris: Volkoff, Mosjoukine, j'oublie que d'autres, ce dépôt capital, C'était de notre base Cinémathèque "(Jean-André Fieschi et André-S. Labarthe, Nouvel entretien avec Georges Franju, Cahiers du Cinéma, November 1963) Jean Mitry
wrote that Films Albatros "was the honor of the French production of the last years of silent cinema, and René and Jeanne Charles Ford Albatros accupa consider that a place of honor in the history of French cinema: "without the Russian Revolution, which brought the troupe of actors and technicians in Paris Ermolieff vitality the period 1920-1929 would not be the same again "and" no French company contributed a similar effort, nor thought of undertaking. "
Ermolieff Joseph, who had started his film career as an assistant projectionist Maurice Hache, director of the company Pathé Frères in Russia, soon became director of Pathé branch in Baku, and then one of the largest Russian producers of directors as Vassili Gontcharov, Tcheslav Sabinski, Yakov Protazanov, Vladislav Starevich. The production house had Ermolieff offices in Moscow, Paris and Yalta, while maintaining its ties with the Pathé, and not just in distribution.
"Unfortunately, the revolution broke out, - Charles Pathé writes in his memoirs - everything was confiscated, including a large proportion of the assets Ermolieff.
arrived in France, Pathé give in the old film studio in Montreuil-sous-Bois, who had directed Ferdinand Zecca until the outbreak of the Great War.
arrived with him in Paris a bit 'at a time directors such as Alexander Volkov, Jacob Protozanov, Viatscheslaw Tourjansky, and actors like Ivan Mosjoukine, Lissenko Nathalie, Nathalie Kovanko, Nicolai Rimsky. Among these emigrants was the actor and producer Alexander Kamenka, the son of a banker and a graduate of the University of Petrograd. In August 1920, Kamenka became president of production house, and Ermolieff CEO. The French production, which began in 1920, immediately gained a huge commercial success and critical acclaim. In 1922 Ermolieff left Paris with Protozanov, Asagarov, Striljevsky and others to settle in Berlin, selling his share in Kamenka, Hache Maurice Bloch and Noe. In December of that year, advertising the film The Answers , directed by Tourjansky, is subtitled: "A film français", and under the logo of ' Albatros (see the image in post), written Ex- Ermolieff and the phrase: "Debout malgré la tempête”. Secondo alcune fonti, il logo della compagnia (autore ignoto) sarebbe un omaggio al nome della nave dell'espatrio da Yalta, per altri, si tratta del simbolo della Russia Bianca, altri ancora che si tratta del ricordo di un albatros che cadde sul ponte della nave e riuscì comunque a riprendere il volo, ecc.
Quando Bloch lascia la compagnia, settembre 1924, Kamenka la riorganizza e la converte definitivamente in Società Film Albatros .
Inizialmente, Albatros si limitò a lavorare nel suo entournage russo, ma dal 1924 Kamenka invitò a collaborare personaggi come Jean Epstein, Marcel l'Herbier, Jacques Feyder, René Clair, e con loro starting with the film specifically "French". Since 1925, creating the film with a great show to ensure the international department profitabil production. Even for these films became the famous' Albatros . Since 1927, he began the new policy of co-production: Lèvres closes (Albatros- Svenska ) Comtesse Marie (Albatros- Julio César ), Les Nouveaux Messieurs (Albatros- Sequana) , Cagliostro (Albatros-Wengeroff) .
This, in outline, is the great little story Albatros . The film showed that it is a world without borders, secondo me, uno dei segreti del suo successo, la sua Essenza, the sound of infinite possibilità intercambio cultural. Per sapere di piu
, mostra virtuale visitate the Albatross Russian Cinema in Exile - The Adventure Films Albatros della French Cinematheque: The archives; Albatross and the decor, the art of the poster. In due sezioni di questa mostra virtuale (How to restore the films by Camille Blot-Wellens, director of collections at the French Cinematheque film, The world of e Ivan Mosjoukine by Stephane Bouquet and writer writer) potete vedere alcune immagini dei film video Albatross . The French Cinematheque
has undertaken a few years ago the research, cataloging and reorganization of the archive Albatros , and restoration, in cooperation with other archives, films, do not miss the opportunity to see some of these renovations to Pordenone Silent Film Festival of Pordenone 28th edition : Albatros, from Russia to Paris, and 3 to 10 October 2009 in Pordenone!
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