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1928
L'Argent ("money") is a French silent film directed in 1928 by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was adapted from the 1891 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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Some films can straddle the complexities of their time. One example can be found in *L’Argent*, 1928 French silent drama directed by Marcel L’Herbier. Crafted amidst the transition from silent to sound cinema, the film's timing was both opportune and challenging. The narrative's focus on financial market manipulation, although prescient given the impending Wall Street crash, faced the obstacle of being a silent film…More
