With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
André Antoine
Sarah Bernhardt
Edgar Degas
Anatole France
Lucien Guitry
Octave Mirbeau
Claude Monet
Auguste Renoir
Henri-Robert
Auguste Rodin
Edmond Rostand
Camille Saint-Saëns
Jean Renoir
Charles Pathé
Claude Renoir
Ferdinand Zecca