Bretteau Movies

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

A peasant goes to Paris to sell a couple of rabbits and everything he finds in the city surprises and amazes him, which causes fun to the Parisians. But they steal his rabbits and he also ends up in prison.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.

Early silent adaptation of the fairy-tale Puss In Boots.

Thieves are chased by police on rooftops.

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door.

Two bearded sages engage ina dispute before a large cauldron, from which they summon up Mephistopheles.

Soldiers ambush a house.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a customs checkpoint while trying to smuggle...