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| Spatiodynamisme | L’India vista da Rossellini (India Seen by Rossellini) |
| Les noces venítiennes (Venetian Honeymoon) |
Il Generale della Rovere |
| L’Italia non è un Paese povero (Italy Is Not a Poor Country) | |
Henri Langlois, the semi-insane chief of the Cinémathèque Française, started work on this documentary about his friend Marc Chagall (1887–1985), in 1958 or thereabouts. Joris Ivens was working at the Cinémathèque at the time, and brought his new protégé Tinto Brass on to assist with the editing. The film was either completed or abandoned in 1962 but was never released and now seems to have vanished. Searches have failed to turn up any of the materials associated with this project. Well, you can’t get too much more obscure than that, can you? Here are the references. Have fun!
Chagall (A nice fellow sent me a translation of this page, but then Yahoo deleted all our emails. Could you write to me again? Many thanks!)
The Films of Joris Ivens
Filmografie; de films van Joris Ivens
Ivens
George Henri Anton Ivens—politischer Dokumentarist oder ethnografisher Filmer? (Good luck getting this one to open properly!)
Film de krant: De geruchtenmachine, no 251, January 2004 (Could someone send me a translation please? Thanks!)
MSN Entertainment: Chagall Vincent Price?!?!?!?!? Think about it, though, and it makes sense.
Various garbled sources state that among the camera operators were Frédéric Rossif and Jean Guynot, that the assistant editor was David Perlov, that the producer was Simon Schiffrin, that the music was by Joseph Kosma, and that the narration was by Vincent Price. My uneducated guess is that all these credits are correct, but that they refer not to this film, but to other films on Chagall.
| Written and directed by | Henri Langlois |
| Camera | Joris Ivens |
| Edited by | Joris Ivens |
| Assistant editor | Tinto Brass |