Up Next in France Before the New Wave

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  Travels in the Congo (Voyage au Congo)

  Travels in the Congo (Voyage au Congo)

  Directed by Marc Allégret • Documentary • 1927 • 117 minutes

  In 1925, Marc Allégret accompanied André Gide on a journey to French Equatorial Africa, the Congo, as his secretary, and novice filmmaker. Filming throughout their 11-month travels, and only three years after Nanook of the North, Allég...

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  Martin Roumagnac

  Martin Roumagnac

  Directed by Georges Lacombe • Drama • With Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin • 1946 • 108 minutes

  This tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the titular character, an unpretent...

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  With André Gide

  With André Gide

  Directed by Marc Allégret • Documentary • 1951 • 92 minutes

  Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to h...