Eden Rests

Bernard Natan saved Pathé studios from financial ruin and spearheaded a golden age of French cinema, and yet he is often tarred with the false accusation of establishing his career by peddling silent-era pornography. David Cairns’ and Paul Duane’s extraordinary documentary Natan uses some nontraditional techniques to relate this tale of how anti-Semitism destroyed the man and how he was written out of the history of French cinema. Preceded by Eden Rests.

Bernard Natan saved Pathé studios from financial ruin and spearheaded a golden age of French cinema, and yet he is often tarred with the false accusation of establishing his career by peddling silent-era pornography. David Cairns’ and Paul Duane’s extraordinary documentary Natan uses some nontraditional techniques to relate this tale of how anti-Semitism destroyed the man and how he was written out of the history of French cinema. Preceded by Eden Rests.