4.8 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Louis Feuillade Production
company Gaumont Film Company Initial release September 1915 Production company Gaumont Cast René Poyen | 4.8/10 FilmAffinity Starring René Poyen Running time 8 minutes Director Louis Feuillade Producer Léon Gaumont | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company
Kleine Optical Company Release date September 1915 (1915-09) Similar Parisette, Barrabas, The Obsession, Tih Minh, Judex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bout de zan and the shirker bout de zan et l embusqu louis feuillade 1916
Bout de Zan et l'embusqué (Bout de Zan and the Shirker) is a 1915 short silent film by Louis Feuillade. Louis Feuillade directed between 1912 and 1916 about sixty short films with Bout de Zan, a little boy played by René Poyen, as a recurring hero.
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Plot
France during World War I: Bout de Zan is irritated by his uncle's friend Marius always bragging about his shooting skills. When Marius bets that he will shoot a small bird in a tree, Bout de Zan finds out that he has paid a boy to drop a dead bird from the tree against which he will shoot a blank. Bout de Zan has the dead bird replaced by a stuffed one accompanied by a note saying that rather than lying he should go and fight the Germans. Ashamed, Marius rushes to enlist.
Production
The film was produced by Sté. des Etablissements L. Gaumont, the company created in 1895 by Léon Gaumont.