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Cinématon is a 154-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 40 years from 1978 until 2019, it consists of a series of over 2,000 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.
Original Release
12/20/1978
US Release
10/28/2010
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Marie-Louise Alemann | Participant |
Halim Anou | Participant |
Tina Aumont | Participant |
Cécile Babiole | Participant |
Gaël Badaud | Participant / N°17 |
Philippe Barassat | Participant |
Christian Barbier | Participant |
Galaxie Barbouth | Self / N°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895 |
Serge Bard | Participant / N°2026 |
Jean-Michel Barjol | Participant |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marie-Louise Alemann | Participant |
Halim Anou | Participant |
Tina Aumont | Participant |
Cécile Babiole | Participant |
Gaël Badaud | Participant / N°17 |
Philippe Barassat | Participant |
Christian Barbier | Participant |
Galaxie Barbouth | Self / N°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895 |
Serge Bard | Participant / N°2026 |
Jean-Michel Barjol | Participant |
Eugénie Bastié | Participant |
Lilian Bathelot | Participant |
René Bauermeister | Self |
Gwenaëlle Baïd | Participant |
Dominique Becker | Participant |
Karol Beffa | Participant |
Ilmann Bel | Participant |
Isabelle Beleanu Perisson | Participant |
Catherine Belkhodja | Participant |
Pierre Benain | Participant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Gerard Courant | Producer |