Gance continued to be a busy film-maker throughout the 1930s, but he characterised most of the films made during this period as ones that he did "not in order to live, but in order not to die". In 1932 he tried to demonstrate his credentials as a reliable and efficient director by filming a remake of "Mater dolorosa" which he completed within 18 days and within budget. Among the other 'commercial' works that followed were "Lucrezia Borgia" (1935), with Edwige Feuillère, and "Un Grand Amour de Beethoven" (1937), with Harry Baur. One of the more personal projects that he was able to undertake was a new version of "J'accuse!" (1938), not so much a remake of his 1919 film as a continuation of it, and conceived as a warning against the new war that he saw impending.