The Imaginary Voyage

1926 film

Cinematography
  • Jimmy Berliet
  • Amédée Morrin
Production
company
Georges Loureau
Distributed byLes Grands Spectacles Cinématographiques
Release date
  • 30 April 1926 (1926-04-30)
Running time
80 minutesCountryFranceLanguages
  • Silent
  • French intertitles

The Imaginary Voyage (French: Le voyage imaginaire) is a 1926 French silent comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Dolly Davis, Jean Börlin and Albert Préjean.[1]

Plot

In a vivid daydream, a reserved bank clerk is guided by a fairy into an underground realm where ordinary people morph into animals and wax figures spring to life. Lucie, the woman he admires from work, joins him, but they encounter obstacles as a malevolent fairy endeavors to keep them separated.

Cast

  • Dolly Davis as Lucie – a typist
  • Jean Börlin as Jean
  • Albert Préjean as Albert
  • Jim Gérald as Auguste
  • Paul Ollivier as the bank manager
  • Maurice Schutz as La sorcière
  • Yvonne Legeay as La mauvaise fée
  • Marguerite Madys as Urgel - la bonne fée
  • Marise Maia
  • Bronja Perlmutter
  • Jane Pierson
  • Louis Pré Fils

References

  1. ^ Oscherwitz & Higgins p.355

Bibliography

  • Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

  • The Imaginary Voyage at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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Films directed by René Clair
Feature films
Short films &
Anthologies
  • Entr'acte (1924)
  • Forever and a Day (1943, segment "1897")
  • Three Fables of Love (1962, segment "Les Deux Pigeons")


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