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L'Argent is a film of genre Drama directed by Marcel L'Herbier with Pierre Alcover
L'Argent (1928)
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Add to a movie listL'Argent ("money") is a French silent film directed in 1928 by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, and it portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
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Saccard and Gunderman are rival Paris bankers. Saccard sees an opportunity to rescue his failing bank, Banque Universelle, by financing the solo transatlantic flight of Jacques Hamelin, a pioneering aviator, and then capitalising on his popularity to set up a colonial business project in Guyane. He also hopes to seduce Hamelin's wife Line in his absence. When a rumour circulates that Hamelin has crashed, Saccard exploits the false reports to manipulate shares at the Bourse.Actors
Pierre Alcover
(Nicolas Saccard)
Brigitte Helm
(Baronin Sandorf)
Marie Glory
(Hamelin's naïve and fragile wife Line)
Henry Victor
(Jacques Hamelin)
Alfred Abel
(Alphonse Gunderman)
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