René Le Somptier

René Eugène Le Somptier (12 November 1884, in Caen – 23 September 1950, in Paris) was a French filmmaker and journalist.^[1]

He made his first short film, Poum à la chasse, in 1908 with his father as an actor. He was injured in World War I and after the war together with Charles Burguet made his first full-length film, La sultane de l’amour (1918).

In 1922 he produced La dame de Montsoreau based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, starring Geneviève Félix. A colorized version was released in 1925.

Films

• Poum à la chasse (1908)
• La sultane de l’amour (1918)
• La montée vers l'Acropole (1920)
• La dame de Montsoreau (1922)
• The Bread Peddler (1923)
• La forêt qui tue (1926)
• Le p'tit Parigot (1926) - a movie serial in 6 parts^[2]
• Le dernier conte de Shéhérazade (1937)

Notes and references

1. Hanotte
2. "Forum des images". Retrieved 2010-07-03.

Sources

• Hanotte, Caroline (2007-02-24). "René Le Somptier". Retrieved 2010-06-03.

External links

• René Le Somptier at the Internet Movie Database