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	Erik Satie (left) and Francis Picabia. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Jean Börlin [le chasseur au chapeau tyrolien et le prestidigitateur (the hunter; and the magician)], Francis Picabia [un homme qui charge le canon (the shirtsleeve man with the cannon); and the assassin], Erik Satie [un homme qui charge le canon (the behatted man with the cannon)], Marcel Duchamp [un joueur d’échecs (a chess player)], Man Ray [un joueur d’échecs (a chess player)], Mademoiselle Friss (Inge Fries) [la ballerine (the bearded ballet dancer)], Marcel Achard [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Georges Auric [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Georges Charensol [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Georges Lacombe [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Roger Le Bon [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Jean Mamy [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Rolf de Maré [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Pierre Scize [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Louis Touchages [un homme qui suit le corbillard (a man following the hearse)], Darius Milhaud

Les Ballets Suedois production. / Produced by Rolf de Maré. Scenario by Picabia (Francis Picabia) and René Clair. Assistant directors, Georges Lacombe and R. Caillaud. Cinematography by Jimmy Berliet. Original music score by Erik Satie. Score orchestration by Henri Sauguet. / Premiered 4 December 1924. General release, 21 January 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was originally intended as an interlude for Satie’s score for the ballet Relâche, presented by the Swedish Ballet at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in 1924.

Experimental: Avant-garde.

Survival status: Print exists in La Cinémathèque française film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Avant-garde

Listing updated: 26 January 2025.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 242-244, 245, 247, 248, 249, 329, 331, 332, 376; Bohn-Light pp. 162, 193; Geduld-Birth p. 39; Sinyard-Silent p. 168 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.