Movies: André Sauvage

"Paris, Paris, you know, I would eat it..." wrote André Sauvage. An artist close to the avant-gardes, André Sauvage composed the first great filmed portrait of Paris. Its ambitious symphony of a big city marries, on the music composed by Jeff Mills, ...

The Yellow Cruise is a French documentary film initially directed by André Sauvage and taken over by Léon Poirier following the intervention of André Citroën. The film was presented in Paris in 1934. André Sauvage was hired by the Pathé-Natan company...

In 1923, André Sauvage produced his first film La Traversée du Grépon. Dedicated to mountaineering in the Mont Blanc massif, this documentary is a performance that earned him the recognition of his peers. André Sauvage and his companions decide to cl...

Pivoine, a tramp living on the docks near Notre Dame, Macaroni and Georgette are his companions in misfortune. Could no longer bear the insults of passersby and stone throwing children, Pivoine decided to move......

Facing the camera, 30 centimeters from the microphone, André Sauvage reads a text on the new regulations concerning zebra crossings in Paris....

"Édouard Georg À Cély" is a short fiction imagined by André Sauvage while he visits the painter and engraver Edouard Goerg. Monsieur Tesson has the habits of a lonely man: he is maniacal and misogynistic. To teach him a lesson, a couple of friends, t...

Produced as part of the "Yellow Cruise", the film documents the daily life of the sedentary Moïs people in Buôn Ma Thuôt, in the Darlac region. The Moïs live by fishing and hunting, and on feast days, the men dance to a special drink....

Images of the family : the solemn communion of the young Agnes ; the friend Edouard Goerg ; Agnes Antoine and children playing on swings or watering the yard....

André Sauvage's short documentary on Greece past and present, deftly depicting the archeological sites, the fishing villages, country roads and peasants....