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Un document inestimable qui souligne les différences de jeu et de ton des acteurs de l'époque avec ceux d'aujourd'hui. Il met surtout en valeur la beauté et le "panache" de l'œuvre d'Edmond Rostand, intemporelle.

I like that Laertes just disappears. They really don’t have the time for two lengthy death sequences.

Everybody in this movie is now very old.

superbe document inestimable merci pour le partage

Were you present at four winds? I grew up at this faire and never missed a day it was open until it closed

This is my favorite movie swordfight! The choreographer, Fred Cavens, liked to mix fencing sensibilities with a harder fight approach. This fight is about gaining the advantage but with a hint of desperation. The smashing of the glass in the curio cabinet as Esteban ducked Diego's thrust is perfect!

Pues qué buen espadachín Esteban

I just love how fucking intense it gets

Magnificent!

Parts of that fencing was intense! Would definitely watch more of it in Olympics, if it was more of the same but unfortunately that's not the case.

Where's the sound? Thought this was the first sound film.

The foil was a training weapon, not designed for actual combat....but movie audiences in the era didn't know that. Hell...I saw a pirate movie where one was used to cut a hawser....oy! Points for using an Italian grip, tho. Action wasn't bad -- both actors had some skills ('course, this was back when sword skills WERE part of an actor's skill set, due to the number of period dramas)

....I’m probably wrong, but I thought , misremember actually. about her missing a leg..or two

Dan Venning in the Open Culture article on the subject said this : Charlotte Cushman played the role nearly four decades earlier, and Sarah Siddons well over a century earlier, in 1775. These are well-documented performances with many easily accessible sources. And there certainly *may* have been others even before Siddons. So apparently it wasn' t that unnusual for women to play male parts and please don't forget that men played all of Shakespears women for decades if not centuries.

My great aunt 'Iris' White was in the Chorus and went to Broadway in the October for the American opening..

Very good quality in 1899.

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We'll never know what she had that made her a legend. At least not from this.

..... & They got PAID for that?!

Le cinéma a bien évolué mais les acteurs aussi. On est loin du film avec Depardieu.

Is this a recording of a stage play?

Granny

*facepalm*

Which one is she I can’t tell

this is amazing

Fascinating document! 30 years ahead of it's time.

"Goddammit, we've been stabbing this ghost chicken for hours and it doesn't even notice! I need to have a lie down."

Sarah is my favorite Hamlet.

"Why the heck is a GIRL playing Hamlet? Not that I have anything against her for doing it, but why?" Because she was a legend with an huge ego and she only played leads, dammit. She still pulled it off.

Wow a very cool way to throw your opponent to the ground with a net in open conditions. The way he circles his opponent and throws him constantly off balance is hypnotizing.

These are poleaxes not pikes, pikes are used against cavalry charges and are way too long for 1 on 1 duels, or any type of combat besides countering cavalries for that matter

If she was born in 1844, she was 55 or 56 at the time this film was made, which even in 1900 was late middle age. The photographic technique at the time was to set up the camera and shoot the entire set like a long shot of a stage in a theatre, and this adds to the illusion, but she has all the mannerisms of a young man rather than a middle aged woman. I can't think of anyone who could pull that off today.

Thanks for posting this, Duellist1956. (The date is 1900, not 1899.)

Actually this did have a soundtrack on cylinder at one time; it was part of the Phono-Cinéma-Thèatre program at the Paris Exposition of 1900. PCT produced it, not Pathé, but they discovered these films in the late 1930s and preserved them. It was common in the 19th century/early 1900s for actresses to portray Hamlet. Asta Nielsen made a feature film in the role in 1920.

Because she wanted to? And it's a more fun role to play than Ophelia? It's hard to tell from this brief clip, but apparently Bernhardt's performance was considered excellent, and received rave reviews at the time.

Why the heck is a GIRL playing Hamlet? Not that I have anything against her for doing it, but why?

2:09 "Noo, don't do that" :D

lol@ people not getting the joke.

sounds like harry enfield

the source. xxx

Quel bonheur de revoir quelques morceaux de cette époque avec Fernand Ledoux et ses élèves..D.Leverd...J.P Zennacker..Bernard Tixier..Robert Benoit etc....que de bons souvenirs ! Merci à celui ou celle qui a eu l'idée de le mettre sur le net...

this is my other fight! we won an award for this fight!! Again, thank you for uploading this!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's my fight!!!! i'm the one in the skirt!!!!! Thank you for putting this up again!!!!

man she is gooooooooood

@44032 lol also a bit shaky and in black and white.

The whole thing was silence.

bob gottlieb just wrote a book on sarah bernhardt