Ferdinand Zecca
Ferdinand Louis Zecca (Paris, 1864 - Saint-Mandé, 23 de Março de 1947) foi um diretor, ator, roteirista e produtor de cinema francês pioneiro, autor de Histoire d'un crime. Dirigiu pelo menos 154 filmes ao longo de sua carreira.
Trabalhava como animador de café concerto, no Teatro Ambigu antes de ser contratado por Charles Pathé, durante a Exposição Universal de 1900, para trabalhar na cinematografia. Zecca rapidamente se tornou no homem de confiança de Pathé ao demonstrar uma grande capacidade comercial.
Realizou filmes de todo o género: comédias, filmes religiosos, históricos, "actualidades reconstituídas", cinema fantástico, ao modo de Georges Méliès, e, principalmente, filmes de caráter realista e melodramas ao gosto popular. Alguns dos seus filmes foram adaptações de romances de Émile Zola, como La Grève. Histoire d'un crime é considerado por muitos como a sua obra prima[carece de fontes].
Em Le muet mélomane, de 1899, Zecca utilizou som sincronizado com um fonógrafo, de modo que pode utilizar efeitos sonoros cómicos pela primeira vez na história do cinema. É de Zecca, também, o primeiro flash-back do cinema, em Histoire d'un crime.
Trabalhou com alguns notáveis representantes do cinema pioneiro, como Lucien Nonguet (autor de La Révolution en Russie (um filme sobre a revolução de Odessa, que seria imortalizada depois no Encouraçado Potemkin de Sergei Eisenstein), Gaston Velle (criador de efeitos especiais), André Heuzé, entre outros.
Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial geriu a filial da Pathé nos Estados Unidos. De volta a França, fundou e dirigiu a secção de formato reduzido, que receberia o nome de "Pathé-Baby".
A partir de 1906, Zecca deixou de realizar e passou apenas a produzir os seus filmes.
Fotos
Filmes (87)
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Cinematógrafo 1900
1979 · Self (archive footage)
Paris 1900
1948 · Self (archive footage)
Tears of Forgiveness
1919 · Director
The Martyrdom of a Queen
1919 · Director
Those of Our Land
1915 · Self
The Old Tragedian
1915 · Director
L'Étoile du génie
1914 · Director, Scenario Writer
La jolie Bretonne
1914 · Director
La Vie et la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ
1914 · Director
La danse héroïque
1914 · Director
Struggle for Life
1914 · Director, Screenplay
Boireau swordsman
1913 · Producer
Rigadin in the Balkans
1913
When Paris Loves
1913 · Director
Cinderella or The Glass Slipper
1912 · Editor
Gold Fever
1912 · Director
La Tragique Aventure de Robert le Taciturne, duc d'Aquitaine
1910 · Director
Slippery Jim
1910 · Director
Caesar in Egypt
1910 · Director
Cleopatra
1910 · Director
Fishing for Crocodiles
1909 · Director
Le Voleur invisible
1909 · Director
Samson and Delilah
1908 · Co-Director
L’Homme à la tête de veau
1908 · Director
Excursion to the Moon
1908 · Other
The Pearl Fisherman
1907 · Director
Métempsycose
1907 · Director
Life and Passion of Christ
1907 · Director
The Golden Beetle
1907 · Director
The Policemen's Little Run
1907 · Director
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper
1907 · Production Supervisor
Scenes of Convict Life
1905 · Director
Les Apaches de Paris
1905 · Director
The Regret
1905 · Director
Vendetta!!
1905 · Director
The Fantastic Diver
1905 · Director
The Car and the Cripple
1905 · Director
Down in the Coal Mines
1905 · Director
Marvellous Reversing
1905 · Director
A Father's Honor
1905 · Director
Dream of the Moon
1905 · Le pochard, Director
The Incendiary
1905 · Director
Ladies of the Court Bathing
1904 · Director
The Strike
1904 · Director
Adventures of Don Quixote
1903 · Director
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ
1903 · Director
Jésus et la samaritaine
1903 · Director
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
1903 · Director
Jolly Monks
1903 · Director
The Life of a Gamester
1903 · Screenplay, Director
Jésus est présenté au peuple
1903 · Director
Jésus parmi les docteurs
1903 · Director
The Dog and the Pipe
1902 · Director
Ingenious Soubrette
1902 · Director
Samson and Delilah
1902 · Director
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1902 · Director
Jésus devant Pilate
1902 · Director
Jésus au jardin des oliviers
1902 · Director
Jésus chassant les vendeurs du temple
1902 · Director
Jésus succombe sous sa croix
1902 · Director
The Sleeping Beauty
1902 · Director
The Fairy of Spring
1902 · Director
The Martinique Disaster
1902 · Director
Alcohol and Its Victims
1902 · Director, Writer
The Marvelous Hen
1902 · Magician, Director
What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor
1902 · Director
An Idyll Under a Tunnel
1901 · Director
Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
1901 · Director
A Bad Rich Man (A Christmas Story)
1901 · Director
A Political Discussion
1901 · Director
The Illusionist
1901 · The Illusionist, Director
The Seven Castles of the Devil
1901 · Director
Scenes From My Balcony
1901 · Director
The Fairy of the Black Rocks
1901 · Director
Conquering the Skies
1901 · Director
Impossible To Get a Plunge
1901 · Director
Extraordinary Fishing
1901 · Director
Dream and Reality
1901 · Director
The Fantastic Plunger
1901 · Director
The Prodigal Son
1901 · Director
Quo Vadis?
1901 · Director
History of a Crime
1901 · Director, Writer
Nuit terrible
1901 · Director
Les méfaits d'une tête de veau
1899 · Director
Glamor Hornsby
· School Girl #3
Exécution en Chine
· Director
Séries (0)
Créditos indisponíveis.