On 28 December 1895, 125 years ago today, the cinema came into existence with the first real public screening hosted by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière in the basement of the Grand Café in Paris.
Op 28 december 1895, vandaag 125 jaar geleden, vond de allereerste publieke filmvertoning plaats in de kelder van het Grand Café in Parijs, georganiseerd door de broers Auguste en Louis Lumière.
Actor and director François Leterrier, known for his leading role in Robert Bresson's Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956), has passed away on December 4 at the age of 91.
On November 12, Argentine-French filmmaker and writer Nelly Kaplan passed away at the age of 89, just months after her lifelong collaborator and producer, Claude Makovski, had died.