Lillian Gish

Directed by Jeanne Moreau
July 16, 1984    58mDocumentary, Biography
7.36.3
New York, summer 1983. Jeanne Moreau goes to meet Lillian Gish to film a portrait of her. The star of American silent films invites her to her apartment and discusses her career from its beginnings on film in 1912. She remembers the conditions on stage when she was a child, the first Hollywood blockbuster, D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915), and her passion for cinema guided by an inexhaustible curiosity.

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  • Lillian GishSelf
  • Jeanne MoreauSelf / Director / Producer
  • Klaus HellwigAssociate Producer
  • Tom HurwitzDirector Of Photography
  • Susan ResnickFirst Assistant Editor
  • Noëlle BoissonEditor
  • Jennifer AugéAssistant Editor
  • Roland RomanelliMusic

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