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| released = | runtime = | language = | country = France | budget = FF 5,000,000 }} ''L'Argent'' ("money") is a French silent film directed in 1928 by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was adapted from the novel ''L'Argent'' by Émile Zola, and it portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s. ==Background== Marcel L'Herbier had become one of the most prominent French film-makers during the 1920s, but even after he had sought greater creative independence by establishing his own production company, Cinégraphic, he experienced continual frustration over the financial arrangements under which he had to work. He said that after ten years of making films, he became "obsessed by a single idea: to film at any cost, even (what a paradox) at great cost, a fierce denunciation of money".〔Marcel L'Herbier, ''La Tête qui tourne''. Paris: Belfond, 1979. p.149. "...une seule idée m'obsédait: filmer à tout prix, même (quel paradoxe) à grand prix, un fougueux réquisitoire contre l'argent."〕 He chose as the basis of his story Zola's novel ''L'Argent'' about the corrupting power of money throughout society, but he insisted that it should be updated from the 1860s to present-day Paris. He envisaged a film on a large scale (having been impressed by Abel Gance's ''Napoléon'') and set about arranging a budget of 3 million francs (the eventual cost was nearly 5 million.〔Richard Abel, ''French cinema: the first wave 1915-1929''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. p.513.〕). To achieve this he had to put his own company in partnership with the Société des Cinéromans of Jean Sapène, and also agreed a distribution deal with the German company UFA which resulted in the engagement of two German stars among the cast. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「L'Argent (1928 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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