Paris 1900
Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Cast
Auguste Rodin
Self (archive footage)
Ferdinand Zecca
Self (archive footage)
Félix Galipaux
Self (archive footage)
Paul Mounet
Self (archive footage)
Gabrielle Dorziat
Self (archive footage)
Auguste Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Gabrielle Réjane
Self (archive footage)
Édouard de Max
Self (archive footage)
Mistinguett
Self (archive footage)
Jean Mounet-Sully
Self (archive footage)
Eugène Silvain
Self (archive footage)
Dranem
Self (archive footage)
Cécile Sorel
Self (archive footage)
Colette
Self (archive footage)
Sarah Bernhardt
Self (archive footage)
Raymond Poincaré
Self (archive footage)
Polaire
Self (archive footage)
Marcelle Praince
Self (archive footage)
Firmin Gémier
Self (archive footage)
René Alexandre
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
Self (archive footage)
Charles Pathé
Self (archive footage)
Leo Tolstoy
Self (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Self (archive footage)
Régina Badet
Self - Actress and dancer (archive footage)
Georges Carpentier
Self (archive footage)
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Self (archive footage)
Gaston Ouvrard
Self (archive footage)
Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen
Self (archive footage)
Gabrielle Robinne
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Cachin
Self (archive footage)
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
Self (archive footage)
Emmeline Pankhurst
Self (archive footage)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Self (archive footage)
Julia Bartet
Self (archive footage)
King Alfonso XIII of Spain
Self (archive footage)
Berthe Bovy
Self (archive footage)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Self (archive footage)
Paul Valéry
Self (archive footage)
Lucien Guitry
Self (archive footage)
Jean Jaurès
Self (archive footage)
Claude Monet
Self (archive footage)
Claude Dauphin
Narrator
André Brulé
Self (archive footage)