History and Cinema: Staging the Past to Talk About the Present

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Since its beginnings, the 7th art has been interested in the representation of the great historical events. In the 1970s, Marc Ferro imposed the idea that each film reveals "a reality that is not visible to historians".It did not take long for cinema to become interested in the great historical figures and events. In 1897, less than two years after the first public screening of the cinematographer of the Lumière brothers, Alexandre Promio, one o…