Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Nicole Védrès
Director

Claude Dauphin
Narrator

Guillaume Apollinaire
Self (archive footage)

René Alexandre
Self (archive footage)

Régina Badet
Self - Actress and dancer (archive footage)
Maurice Barrès
Self (archive footage)

Julia Bartet
Self (archive footage)

Sarah Bernhardt
Self (archive footage)
Henry Bataille
Self (archive footage)
Louis Blériot
Self (archive footage)
Directed by John Ford70%
Above Majestic73%
The Class of ‘9271%
Love, Antosha74%
Daguerréotypes73%
Woman77%
Elstree 197661%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments74%
180° South72%
Le Bus : Les Bleus en grève69%
McQueen74%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Audrey71%
That's Entertainment! III70%
Voyeur59%