
Directing
Henri Pouctal
Born 1860-10-21 · Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, France
Henri Pouctal (21 October 1860 - 2 February 1922) was an early French silent film director and actor best known for his silent films of the 1910s and his directorship of the Count of Monte Cristo serials in 1918. In film, Pouctal directed about 100 films between 1908 and 1922.
Acting credits
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L'écharpe
1911
The Count of Féredia, ex-officer of the Spanish army and prisoner of war, gains the favors of a young woman whose jealous husband spies relentlessly on their conduct. An adaptation of the Balzac story.
The Great Breach
1909
Behind the camera
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La Flambée
1916
1.0Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Camille
1912
1.0Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Camille
1912
The story takes place in the Parisian "High Society" of the time. Two long-time friends become enemies because of a beautiful girl.
Will
1917
The story takes place in the Parisian "High Society" of the time. Two long-time friends become enemies because of a beautiful girl.
Will
1917
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Gerval, the Iron-Master
1912
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L'Instinct
1916
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L'Instinct
1916
10.0Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.
Work
1920
10.0Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.
Work
1920
L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.
L'infirmière
1914
NRQueen Christine of Sweden finds out of an affair between her favourite Monaldeschi and a courtesan in Fontainebleau. From the Guerra Zacarías collection.
Monaldeschi
1911
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Chaînes rompues
1912
NRFrench war propaganda in the form of a family drama in the German government. Nationalist sentiments severely test the young marriage between a French and a German. Directed by Henri Pouctal.
Alsace
1916
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Gigolette
1921
5.4Melodramatic war drama based on a novel by M.A. Bernière, directed by M. Pouctal, conceived as popular propaganda. When it turns out that plant director M. Dalibert has suddenly disappeared, Chantecoq is charged with the investigation. Through creative means he succeeds to unravel the case, involving two German spies looking for a secret recipe for a new French weapon of war.
Chantecoq
1916
Young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, Albert's fiancée. After the wedding, Charlotte still resists Werther's love and the latter decides to shoot himself with Albert's gun.
Werther
1910
6.0Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
The Count of Monte Cristo
1918
The adventures of D'Artagnan
The Three Musketeers
1912
In Paimpol, Gaud Mévél, a shipowner's daughter raised in Paris, falls in love with the sailor Yann Gaos, who chooses to ignore her because of their different social standing. As soon as he learns she is ruined, he marries her. A few days later, he leaves for Iceland, never to return.
Icelandic Fisherman
1915
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Mannequin
1913
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Three Musketeers
1912
No synopsis available yet.
Théodora
1912
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Le dieu du hasard
1920