La Madone des sleepings (Marco de Gastyne et Maurice Gleize) © 1928 - Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars
La Madone des sleepings
by Marco de Gastyne & Maurice Gleize · France · 1927 · 2h38
Prince Séliman (Olaf Fjord) becomes the personal secretary of an offbeat aristocrat (Claude France) and goes off to negotiate oil concessions... A stylized adaptation featuring lavish production sets, this silent flick was a major triumph of the Roaring Twenties.
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (La Madone des sleepings)
France, 1927, 2h38, noir et blanc, format 1.33
Lumière Classics Label
Creation DCP exclusively for the festival
2026 4K restoration by the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé at L'Image Retrouvée laboratory - Éclair Classics, with the support of the CNC.
Distributor: Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé