L’Argent

Year: 1928

Runtime: 165 mins

Director: Marcel L’Herbier

Drama

Adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Direct adaptation

Money: The book behind L’Argent

Aristide Saccard Builds a Speculative Bank on Colonial Ambition, Publicity, Credit, and Religious Enthusiasm until Finance Becomes a Machine for Collective Belief · by Émile Zola, Valerie Minogue

Why this book?

Marcel L'Herbier moves Zola's Universal Bank speculation into the film's contemporary 1920s and renames Saccard's institution Banque Universelle, while retaining the financier's market manipulation, publicity, aviation-linked grand project, rivalry, erotic intrigue and spectacular collapse. The adaptation replaces much Rougon-Macquart genealogy and colonial detail with modernist offices, trading-floor crowds and mobile camerawork, turning the novel's analysis of credit and belief into a visual machine of glass, paper, bodies and rising prices.

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