Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge (1928)

A MERRY WHIRL of DAZZLING PARISIAN BACK-STAGE LIFE

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.

Date of release
1928-03-21
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
Music, Drama
Director
E.A. Dupont

Casting

Interesting facts

Moulin Rouge is a 1928 British synchronized sound drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Olga Chekhova, Eve Gray and Jean Bradin. Due to the popularity of sound films, the American film company Sono Art-World Wide Pictures collaborated with B.I.P. to produce a sound version of the film for cinemas wired for sound. They recorded the soundtrack using the RCA Photophone sound system. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film is set in and around the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris.

Production

The film was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures. It was Dupont's last film without recorded dialogue, although several of his later sound films were released with silent versions. Dupont was one of a number of leading Continental technicians and actors hired by BIP in the late 1920s to try and establish the company as a leading international producer. Alfred Junge worked as Art Director.

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