La Belle Epoque

La Belle Epoque

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1983

Runtime

1h 2m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

La Belle Epoque

Production Companies

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ABC Video Enterprises

Director

Suzanne Bauman

Description

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 1890-1914, a time in which the wealthy upper classes of the Western world gave themselves over to a life of elegance and taste-making, their eyes closed to the increasing social and political turmoil fermenting beneath the surface of polite society. The program uses period motion pictures, photographs, and sound recordings, as well as the arts and fashions of the period to supplement the spoken memories of the participating interviewees who actually lived... La Belle Epoque.