Hippolyte De Kempeneer

Hippolyte De Kempeneer

1876-01-01
68 (1944-01-01)

Hippolyte De Kempeneer (1876–1944) was a Belgian film producer and director. He was one of the pioneers of the Belgian film industry during the silent era.

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Hippolyte De Kempeneer (1876–1944) was a Belgian film producer and director. He was one of the pioneers of the Belgian film industry during the silent era.

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Cœurs belges 1923

Patriotic melodrama. Marquise Berthe de Brabant got married to a French nobleman just before the beginning of World War I. Her husband gets severely injured in an attack against the Germans and hands over the bouquet of Berthe to a German officer, before dying without revealing his name. In turn, the German soldier gets injured and is sent to a military hospital, where Berthe is taking care of war victims. Unexpectedly he tells her everything. Will Berthe take revenge, or will she fulfill her duty as a nurse?
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The Midnight Chimes 1924

The film is based on the bitter rivalry of two pigeon racers, Fred, the bell-ringer of Bruges and Neel, the fiancé of Fred's partially sighted sister. Following a major tournament, won by Neel's bird, Fred's resentment drives him to mount an attack upon his rival so ferocious that he believes he has killed him. Seized by remorse, he intends to throw himself from the belfry, but his disabled sister risks her own life to mount to the tower and try to save him.