Le Carnaval des vérités

Le Carnaval des vérités (1920)

Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.

Date of release
1920-06-04
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama
Director
Marcel L'Herbier

Casting

Interesting facts

Le Carnaval des vérités is a 1920 French silent film written and directed by Marcel L'Herbier.

Production

Filming took place on location on the Basque coast near Biarritz in November 1919 and subsequently at the Studios de La Villette in Paris.

The central role in the film was played by the stage actress Suzanne Desprès, who was making her first appearance in a film. Other parts were taken by the experienced Paul Capellani and two actors who would make regular appearances in L'Herbier's silent films, Marcelle Pradot and Jaque Catelain.

Great emphasis was placed on the visual design of the film, and one of the two set-designers was Claude Autant-Lara, then aged 18 and undertaking his first job in cinema. His work included a "phantasmagoric" set for the climactic scene of the film which featured a masked ball.

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