Gribiche

Gribiche (1926)

Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.

Date of release
1926-04-02
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jacques Feyder

Casting

Interesting facts

Gribiche is a 1926 French silent film directed by Jacques Feyder based on the eponymous short story by writer Frédéric Boutet.

Production

In May 1925, Jacques Feyder, who had just finished shooting Das Bilnis (The Image), met Alexandre Kamenka, the creator of the company Films Albatros, with whom he signed a contract for the making of a feature film. It is the fifth film of the director and the first he made for the company of the "Russian colony" in Paris, which brought together, around Kamenka, producers, directors, actors and technicians emigrated in France after the October Rev…

The shooting took place in 1925 and Feyder could rely on the expertise of two excellent in-house cinematographers, Maurice Desfassiaux and Maurice Forster who will realise in particular remarkable nocturnal views in the light of street lights for the scenes shot on location in Paris. After Gribiche, Jacques Feyder, will realise two more features for Films Albatros,

Carmen in 1926 and The New Gentlemen in 1928 with the same cinematographers.

The indoor scenes were shot at the Montreuil studio of Films Albatros, with impressive sets in the Art Déco style, designed by scenic designer Lazare Meerson, which evoke the Stoclet Palace built in Brussels between 1905 and 1911 by architect Josef Hoffmann.

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