Cast from Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Jean Rochefort
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jean Epstein
Self (archive footage)
Marcel L'Herbier
Self (archive footage)
Man Ray
Self (archive footage)
Abel Gance
Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Michel Simon
Self (archive footage)
Alberto Cavalcanti
Self (archive footage)
Jean Vigo
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Duchamp
Self (archive footage)
Jean Grémillon
Self (archive footage)
Arletty
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Carné
Self
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Étienne-Jules Marey
Self (archive footage)
Émile Reynaud
Self (archive footage)
Auguste Lumière
Self (archive footage)
Louis Lumière
Self (archive footage)
Georges Méliès
Self (archive footage)
Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
Charles Pathé
Self (archive footage)
René Dary
Self (archive footage)
Louis Feuillade
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Feyder
Self (archive footage)
Georges Lacombe
Self (archive footage)
René Clair
Self (archive footage)
Francis Picabia
Self (archive footage)
Erik Satie
Self (archive footage)
Gina Manès
Self (archive footage)
Léon Mathot
Self (archive footage)
Blanche Montel
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Touzé
Self (archive footage)
Henri Chomette
Self (archive footage)
Louis Delluc
Self (archive footage)
Germaine Dulac
Self (archive footage)
Ève Francis
Self (archive footage)
Catherine Hessling
Self (archive footage)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Self (archive footage)
André Breton
Self (archive footage)
Luis Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
Salvador Dalí
Self (archive footage)
Dita Parlo
Self (archive footage)
Harry Baur
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Louis Barrault
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Prévert
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Prévert
Self (archive footage)
Jules Berry
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Dalio
Self (archive footage)
Louis Jouvet
Self (archive footage)
René Lefèvre
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Lévesque
Self (archive footage)
Jean Gabin
Self (archive footage)
Julien Duvivier
Self (archive footage)
Sacha Guitry
Self (archive footage)
Gérard Philipe
Self (archive footage)
Max Ophüls
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Pagnol
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Becker
Self (archive footage)