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La Roue ( pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse. It was released in 1923. The film used then-revolutionary lighting techniques, and rapid scene changes and cuts.
The Wheel: Directed by Abel Gance. With Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars. A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
Starring Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone. An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (“The Wheel”) has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
Mar 9, 2015 · Duration: 4 hours 34 minutes. Availability: Limited + Show. Presented by Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection. Taken to its bare bones, LA ROUE (The Wheel) deals with Sisif, a locomotive engineer who saves Norma, an infant girl, from a train wreck and raises her as his adopted daughter.
An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (“The Wheel”) has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
Sep 29, 2023 · La roue (1923), the feature Abel Gance made after J’accuse (1919) and before Napoléon (1927), screens in full with a thirty-minute intermission from noon to dinner hour on Saturday at the New York Film Festival and then again next week in two parts: Episodes 1 and 2 on Wednesday and 3 and 4 on Thursday.
An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s La roue has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
