Henri Pouctal

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

Behind the camera

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10.0

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La Flambée

1916

Camille poster
1.0

Marguerite 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

Camille poster
1.0

Marguerite 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

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NR

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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NR

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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8.0

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Gerval, the Iron-Master

1912

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7.0

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L'Instinct

1916

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7.0

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L'Instinct

1916

Work poster
10.0

Luc 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

Work poster
10.0

Luc 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

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NR

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

L'infirmière

1914

Monaldeschi poster
NR

Queen 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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10.0

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Chaînes rompues

1912

Alsace poster
NR

French 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

Gigolette poster
9.0

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Gigolette

1921

Chantecoq poster
5.4

Melodramatic 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

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8.0

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

The Count of Monte Cristo poster
6.0

Young 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

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5.5

The adventures of D'Artagnan

The Three Musketeers

1912

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10.0

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

The Mannequin poster
NR

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The Mannequin

1913

The Three Musketeers poster
10.0

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The Three Musketeers

1912

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NR

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Théodora

1912

Le dieu du hasard poster
7.0

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Le dieu du hasard

1920