Description

Commemorate the 100th anniversary of this wild piece of fantasy by Ferdinand Zecca, a contemporary of Méliès. Watch a demon magician burn female victims and turn their ashes into miniature people in a bottle -- before inventing TV! This is the first-ever hand-coloured film and the first based on a piece of music. A hidden treasure from the archives of Le Cinéclub de Montreal: “the Film Society.”

—Philippe Spurrell

Credits

Director: Ferdinand Zecca
Screenplay: Segundo de Chomón

Opens for...

Cosmic Voyage Kosmicheskiy reis Russia 1936 | 70 min Russian language, English subtitles