JACQUES CATELAIN AND EMMY LYNN Scene from Marcel L'Herbier's silent,...
JACQUES CATELAIN AND EMMY LYNN
Scene from Marcel L'Herbier's silent, modernist film *Le Vertige*, 1926.
Photograph, silver print on vintage card stock, unmarked on the back.
Image: 16.5 x 22.5 cm; 23 x 29 cm.
Note: Adapted by Marcel L’Herbier from Charles Méré’s play, *Le Vertige* tells the story of a passion rooted in memory and duality. Emmy Lynn plays Natacha Svirsky, the wife of a Russian general who, at the start of the Revolution, kills her former lover Dimitrieff. After fleeing to Nice, Natacha meets Henri de Cassel, the dead man’s double; both characters are played by Jaque Catelain. This resemblance reawakens both her desire and her trauma. The melodrama is part of L’Herbier’s artistic and technical explorations: the sets were designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens, Lucien Aguettand, and Robert Delaunay, while Hans Theyer and Jean Letort handled the cinematography. These collaborations give the film its resolutely modernist aesthetic.
JACQUES CATELAIN AND EMMY LYNN
Scene from Marcel L'Herbier's silent, modernist film *Le Vertige*, 1926.
Photograph, silver print on vintage card stock, unmarked on the back.
Image: 16.5 x 22.5 cm; 23 x 29 cm.
Note: Adapted by Marcel L’Herbier from Charles Méré’s play, *Le Vertige* tells the story of a passion rooted in memory and duality. Emmy Lynn plays Natacha Svirsky, the wife of a Russian general who, at the start of the Revolution, kills her former lover Dimitrieff. After fleeing to Nice, Natacha meets Henri de Cassel, the dead man’s double; both characters are played by Jaque Catelain. This resemblance reawakens both her desire and her trauma. The melodrama is part of L’Herbier’s artistic and technical explorations: the sets were designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens, Lucien Aguettand, and Robert Delaunay, while Hans Theyer and Jean Letort handled the cinematography. These collaborations give the film its resolutely modernist aesthetic.
