Rien que les heures | |
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Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
Starring | Philippe Hériat Blanche Bernis Nina Chousvalowa Clifford McLaglen |
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Running time | 45 min. |
Country | France |
Languages | Silent film French intertitles |
Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 silent city symphony film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes. [1] [2] [3]
Other noted examples of the city symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929). [4]