Big names in Russian cinema but also René Clair and Jean Epstein have made films there. Today, the glass roof built by Charles Pathé in 1904 houses artists’ studios. But the structure is deteriorating more and more and the owner, Lucien Chemla, cannot reach an agreement with the town hall and the Ministry of Culture. Light on a monument in danger, open to the public this weekend.
He has a thick white beard, thick eyebrows, piercing blue eyes, a black hat topped with plastic flowers, a red tunic with interwoven gold patterns, red pants, equally red boots. Alexeï Batoussov is an artist. He makes traditional costumes and paints mountain landscapes. He is originally from Saint Petersburg but lives in France. His workshop, since 2004, has found refuge in the bowels of the Albatros space, in Montreuil, a few meters from a large glass roof which is not without maintaining a link with his native country.
Because this hall, built in 1904 by Charles Pathé, housed from 1920 the shootings of many films made by a troop of white Russians – a generic term of the Russian diaspora which initially designated the soldiers engaged in the “white”, tsarist armies. , against those, “red”, of the Bolsheviks. Producer Joseph Ermolieff, actress Nathalie Lissenko, directors Alexandre Volkoff and Yakov Protazanov indeed founded the Albatros studio there when they arrived in France. Directors René Clair (1898-1981), Jean Epstein (1897-1953) and Marcel L’Herbier (1888-1979) also took advantage. But the studio does not manage to negotiate the turn of the talking cinema and the glass roof, in the 1930s, becomes an alloy factory.
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