Catherine Hessling
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Sur un air de Charleston: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger, André Cerf. Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
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- Short, Sci-Fi
- Jean Renoir
- 1927-03-19
Charleston Parade (Sur un air de Charleston) is a short 1927 dance comedy film starring Jean Renoir and Johnny Hudgins. It was directed by Jean Renoir. Hudgins performs in blackface. The film is extant. Renoir used some of the leftover footage from his previous film Nana. It was shot in a few days and unfinished. It deals with racial roles.
Un savant africain décide de partir en exploration en bulle volante. Arrivé au-dessus de ce qui reste de Paris, il pose son engin sur le toit d'une colonne Morris, laquelle sert d'abri à une belle sauvagesse aborigène blanche, dont le seul compagnon est un singe.
- Catherine Hessling
- Pierre Lestringuez
- Jean Renoir
- Néo-Films
Nov 22, 2018 · Charleston Parade (Sur un air de Charleston). 1927, France. Directed by Jean Renoir. Written by André Cerf, Pierre Lestringuez, Starring: Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins.
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
- Jean Renoir
Black and white. This incomplete film is Renoir's only venture into science fiction. Set in the year 2028, it involves an African explorer (Hudgins) travelling to a devastated post- War Europe in a globular Airship. There he encounters a native, a white woman (Hessling) wearing only rags.
A surreal, silent, sci-fi short from 1927, it is the tale of a 21st-century African airman who journeys to post-apocalyptic Paris and discovers the sacred dance of the ancients, the Charleston. Hilarious, delightful, sexy, and utterly, utterly, soul-refreshingly bonkers, the maddest thing I have seen in ages.
