Synopsis
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 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, CA on April 9, 2010.
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68 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Marie Louise Alemann
as Participant
Gerard Courant
as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Halim Anou
as Participant
Alain Alcide Sudre
as N°5
Tina Aumont
as Participant
Rose Lowder
as N°6
Cecile Babiole
as Participant
Bernard Roue
as N°7
Gael Badaud
as Participant
Dominique Noguez
as N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Philippe Barassat
as Participant
Katerina Thomadaki
as N°9
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56Christian Barbier
as Participant
Martine Elzingre
as N°12
Galaxie Barbouth
as Self
Teo Hernandez
as N°16 / N°481
Serge Bard
as Participant
Jean Michel Barjol
as Participant
Joseph Morder
as N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Martine Rousset
as N°22
Michel Nedjar
as N°27
Babette Mangolte
as N°31
Raymonde Carasco
as N°32
Stephane Marti
as N°33
Boris Lehman
as N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Raphael Bassan
as N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Michael Snow
as N°44
Lionel Soukaz
as N°47
F J Ossang
as N°52
Gina Lola Benzina
as N°53
Erwin Huppert
as N°54
Marie Noelle Kauffmann
as N°56
Marcel Hanoun
as N°60
Stephane Monclaire
as N°61
Howard Guttenplan
as N°65
Jean Douchet
as N°66
Joseph Losey
as N°76
Yvonne Rainer
as N°95
Manoel De Oliveira
as N°102
Ulrike Ottinger
as N°104
Derek Jarman
as N°105
Jean Luc Godard
as N°106
Conny Schenk
as N°107
Jackie Raynal
as N°110 / N°2929
Paul Sharits
as N°120
Stephen Dwoskin
as N°121
Robert Kramer
as N°122
Jean Michel Bouhours
as N°145
Christian Lebrat
as N°150
Serge Merlin
as N°158
Roland Lethem
as N°161
Marie Riviere
as N°172 / N°173
Imre Gyongyossy
as N°174
Doreen Canto
as N°179
Kristin Kirkconnel
as N°180
Rosette
as N°192
Philippe Garrel
as N°193
Wim Wenders
as N°212
Noel Godin
as N°214
Maurice Pialat
as N°236
Sandrine Bonnaire
as N°238 / N°1742
Alf Bold
as N°246
Brigitte Sy
as N°250
Jakobois
as N°251
Werner Nekes
as N°261
Helmut Herbst
as N°262
Laszlo Szabo
as N°282
Peter Kubelka
as N°295
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