Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset (30 March 1862 - 22 June 1913) was an early film pioneer in France, active between the years 1905 and 1913. He worked on many genres of film and was particularly associated with the development of detective or crime serials, such as the Nick Carter and Zigomar series.

Zigomar - the Black Scourge - Episode 1 (1913)

Paulin Broquet, the great Parisian detective, has brought the notorious bandit, Zigomar, to justice. Determined not to let the law punish him, he had taken poison in the Hall of Justice. Then he was brought to a hospital where he lay motionless and was visited by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Alexandre Arquillière  •  André Liabel  •  Attilio Maffei  •  Josette Andriot

Paulin Broquet, the great Parisian detective, has brought the notorious bandit, Zigomar, to justice. Determined not to let the law punish him, he had taken poison in the Hall of Justice. Then he was brought to a hospital where he lay motionless and was visited by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Alexandre Arquillière  •  André Liabel  •  Attilio Maffei  •  Josette Andriot

Protéa (1913)

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Josette Andriot, who wore a characteristic costume of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Josette Andriot  •  Lucien Bataille  •  Charles Krauss  •  Henri Gouget

Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Josette Andriot, who wore a characteristic costume of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Josette Andriot  •  Lucien Bataille  •  Charles Krauss  •  Henri Gouget

The Magic Sack (1908)

An Old man is chased by some people. He hits them with his magic sack and they disappear. He is then arrested and escapes by climbing into his sack and reappearing outside the prison walls, he is soon caught again and makes amends by shaking his sack and bringing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
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An Old man is chased by some people. He hits them with his magic sack and they disappear. He is then arrested and escapes by climbing into his sack and reappearing outside the prison walls, he is soon caught again and makes amends by shaking his sack and bringing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
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Zigomar vs. Nick Carter (1912)

Nick Carter, the famous detective, is ordered to prosecute the gang of Zigomar. Carter gets into various thorny situations but manages to escape every time, helped by Olga, a former girlfriend of Zigomar. Carter finally manages to trap Zigomar and Zigomar is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset  •  Lucien N. Andriot
CAST:  Alexandre Arquillière  •  Charles Krauss  •  André Liabel  •  Josette Andriot

Nick Carter, the famous detective, is ordered to prosecute the gang of Zigomar. Carter gets into various thorny situations but manages to escape every time, helped by Olga, a former girlfriend of Zigomar. Carter finally manages to trap Zigomar and Zigomar is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset  •  Lucien N. Andriot
CAST:  Alexandre Arquillière  •  Charles Krauss  •  André Liabel  •  Josette Andriot

Aux feux de la rampe (1912)

Short melodrama. Two former lovers meet twenty years later when the man has to compete with the son of the woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Josette Andriot  •  Cécile Guyon  •  André Liabel

Short melodrama. Two former lovers meet twenty years later when the man has to compete with the son of the woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Josette Andriot  •  Cécile Guyon  •  André Liabel

Dans la cave (1912)

Two thugs conk the proprietor of a bistro on the head and drag him downstairs to the cellar where he stores his wine. While they plot the next step of whatever they are doing, two gendarmes come in to finish their meal. Running short of wine, one heads down to the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Josette Andriot

Two thugs conk the proprietor of a bistro on the head and drag him downstairs to the cellar where he stores his wine. While they plot the next step of whatever they are doing, two gendarmes come in to finish their meal. Running short of wine, one heads down to the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Josette Andriot

In the Land of Darkness (1912)

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Charles Krauss  •  André Liabel  •  Marcel Vibert  •  Cécile Guyon

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Charles Krauss  •  André Liabel  •  Marcel Vibert  •  Cécile Guyon

Nick Carter - Le mystère du lit blanc (1911)

Another adventure of master detective Nick Carter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
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Another adventure of master detective Nick Carter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
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Le joueur (1909)

A man gamles his wife away.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  André Volbert  •  Henri Gouget

A man gamles his wife away.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  André Volbert  •  Henri Gouget

The Poisoned Flower (1909)

Silent short  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Louise Colliney  •  Aurelio Sidney

Silent short  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Louise Colliney  •  Aurelio Sidney

Silent Short  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Jean Marié de L'Isle

The Suicide Club (1909)

A Nick Carter mystery  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Pierre Bressol

A Nick Carter mystery  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Pierre Bressol

A Nick Carter mystery  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Pierre Bressol

Zigomar the Eelskin (1911)

A sensational detective story, founded on the romance of Leon Sazie. The noted criminal who terrorized all Europe is shown in these three Zigomar reels in a dramatic and intense struggle for supremacy with Paulin Broquet, the celebrated detective, who takes the two ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Charles Krauss  •  Alexandre Arquillière  •  André Liabel  •  Attilio Maffei

A sensational detective story, founded on the romance of Leon Sazie. The noted criminal who terrorized all Europe is shown in these three Zigomar reels in a dramatic and intense struggle for supremacy with Paulin Broquet, the celebrated detective, who takes the two ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Charles Krauss  •  Alexandre Arquillière  •  André Liabel  •  Attilio Maffei

Les batailles de la vie - Épisode 2: Le saboteur (1912)

"Le Saboteur" is the second episode of the collection "Les batailles de la vie"  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Henri Gouget  •  Eugénie Nau  •  Émile Keppens

"Le Saboteur" is the second episode of the collection "Les batailles de la vie"  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Henri Gouget  •  Eugénie Nau  •  Émile Keppens

Les batailles de la vie - Épisode 3: Le testament (1912)

Grandmother Hall, aged fast falling in health, is greatly comforted by her only two grandchildren, daughters of her own daughter long since past before. She has made a will in which she stipulates that Lawrence, her son, shall inherit her wealth providing he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Charles Krauss  •  Henri Gouget  •  Maryse Dauvray  •  Cécile Guyon

Grandmother Hall, aged fast falling in health, is greatly comforted by her only two grandchildren, daughters of her own daughter long since past before. She has made a will in which she stipulates that Lawrence, her son, shall inherit her wealth providing he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
CAST:  Charles Krauss  •  Henri Gouget  •  Maryse Dauvray  •  Cécile Guyon