1776. Poland. With his homeland partitioned and ruled by Russia, Polish nobleman and patriot Boleslas Vorowski heads a secret liberation movement. When Vorowski is wounded in battle, his mentor, the inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen, constructs the Turk, a marvelous chess-playing automaton. With the handsome Polish nobleman secreted inside, the Turk vanquishes the Russians – if only on the chessboard. When Catherine the Great summons the Turk to the Russian Imperial Court for a command match, the fate of Polish independence lies in the hands of the chess player.

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King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king’s god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.

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Recently restored (in 2001) by Centrimage for ZZ Productions, Maldone is one of the great achievements of French silent cinema. It was the first genuine masterpiece from Jean Grémillon and is also a very good example of the documentary style of film from this period. It was released in October 1928 but was not a great success, bringing and end to Charles Dullin’s film production ambitions (Dullin also stars in the film as Maldone).

An extraordinary work, Maldone manages to presage so many of the dominant themes in French cinema of the following decade. The cinematography, which includes a great deal of location work, is predominantly neo-realist in style, whilst the narrative has strong elements of poetic realism. As in many of Grémillon’s later films, Maldone alternates between moments of great dramatic intensity and moments of calm, poignant reflection. On each occasion, Grémillon uses some remarkable photography to evoke a reaction in the audience and often his originality is quite breath taking. The best example of this is the swirling camera movements in the dizzying ball scene, conveying the drunken and emotional intoxication of Maldone when he realises he is in love with Zita.

The realist documentary style of much of the photography makes a strange but effective contrast with Grémillon’s almost surrealist attempts to show on screen Maldone’s inner thoughts and emotions. Denied the luxury of sound dialogue, Grémillon, like many of the great silent film directors, was compelled to develop more ingenious ways of telling a story, and Maldone shows the director at his most creative and eloquent.

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