COCTEAU Jean - Lot 102

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 102
COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT,[Coriolan, 1947]; 1 page in-4 at 36, rue Montpensier. Cutting an unknown film. Coriolan, a film by Jean Cocteau never shown to the public, was made in the summer of 1947 in his house in Milly-la-Forêt. Henri Filipacchi, the only member of the technical team who held the camera in 16 millimetres (and kept the only copy). Among the actors, Cocteau himself, in the role of the magician, Jean Marais and Josette Day, with whom he was touring La Belle et la Bête, but also some extras, including Jean Genet, the publisher Paul Morihien or Georges Mathis, the owner of the restaurant Le Catalan. The scenario is divided into 11 sequences, the 12th having remained blank (the synopsis published in Du Cinématographe allows to reconstitute the few sequences at the end of the film. "1. Coriolan whips one of his enemies tied to a tree. He's an old magician. 2. Count Popof, a great eagle hunter, left his castle and sought eagles. He's scanning the horizon. 3. He arrives in a clearing and aims at an eagle. 3. A small dog falls down. 4. the Popof account, terrified of his mistake, picks up the small dog and rocks him"...
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