La Roue is a 1923 French silent film directed by Abel Gance, centering on a railway engineer who raises an orphaned girl he secretly loves as she grows into adulthood, with a tragic accident and the family's eventual move from a busy rail yard to the mountains at the story's center. Gance shot the film using then-unusual techniques, including rapid montage editing to convey the speed and violence of a train crash and dramatic natural lighting, methods that influenced later French avant-garde filmmakers. Gance's original cut ran to many hours across numerous reels, and the film survives today only in variously shortened restorations, but it remains regarded as one of the more technically innovative French films of the silent era.
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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse.
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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse.
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La Roue is a 1923 French silent film directed by Abel Gance, centering on a railway engineer who raises an orphaned girl he secretly loves as she grows into adulthood, with a tragic accident and the family's eventual move from a busy rail yard to the mountains at the story's center.
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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse.
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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse.
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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse.
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