Philippe Esnault, Clarisse Gance, Jany Holt, Robert Hossein, Claude Lafaye, Claude Lelouch, Pierre Mondy and Claude Pinoteau have in common the fact to have been, in private life or professionally, closed to one of the greatest personalities of cinema’s history, Abel Gance. What relations did they have with the great man who used to say: “There is always a principle behind me”.What ways of idea the producer of “Napoléon” has left to them?