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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
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Pierre-Alain Krummenacher, accordéoniste de Besançon, interprète un charleston de sa composition "Sur un air de Charleston" (P.A.Krummenacher/J.Richard & P.Y...
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- Pierre-Alain Krummenacher
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.
Browse Videos . Staff Picks . Categories . Channels . On Demand ... Jean Renoir - Sur un Air de Charleston (1927) from Floyd Webb. 12 years ago.
Nov 10, 2023 · Even without the benefit of sound, one can hear the jazzy rhythms of Charleston through the exuberant gyrations of an African-American dancer whom Renoir and his star, actress Catherine Hessling, had discovered for this picture.
Nov 22, 2018 · (5/10) In a nutshell: A bonkers short subject by master director Jean Renoir from 1927 shows an African explorer in a spacecraft discovering a white native woman in a post-apocalyptic Paris, and they dance the Charleston for ten minutes. Charleston Parade (Sur un air de Charleston). 1927, France. Directed by 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.
