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Sur un air de Charleston: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger, André Cerf. Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Charleston Parade (Sur un air de Charleston) is a short 1927 dance comedy film starring Jean Renoir and Johnny Hudgins. It was directed by Jean Renoir. Hudgins performs in blackface. The film is extant. Renoir used some of the leftover footage from his previous film Nana. It was shot in a few days and unfinished. It deals with racial roles.
A single Central African explorer travels to Paris, France and runs into a lone woman amongst the desolate city. The Central African explorers’ (possibly Chad or Cameroon?) ship is arguably one of the most innovative and visionary designs in sci-fi film history.
Sur un air de charleston est un film français réalisé par Jean Renoir en 1926 . Synopsis. 2028. L'Europe a été détruite à la suite d'une guerre dévastatrice. Un savant africain décide de partir en exploration en bulle volante.
A film review of Sur un air de Charleston (1927), aka Charleston Parade, directed by Jean Renoir, featuring Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger.
Charleston Parade is a totally bonkers short silent film from Jean Renoir, a nutso little experimental showcase for the animalistic eroticism of his wife, Catherine Hessling. The short is set in the then-distant future of 2028, a time in which, apparently, Europe has descended into apocalyptic disrepair while Africa is ascendant, its people ...
Black and white. This incomplete film is Renoir's only venture into science fiction. Set in the year 2028, it involves an African explorer (Hudgins) travelling to a devastated post- War Europe in a globular Airship. There he encounters a native, a white woman (Hessling) wearing only rags.
