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Fat and Lean Wrestling Match

19002 minFrance
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

Wrestlers transform, flatten and dismantle one another without lasting injury. Bodies that should be broken repeatedly reassemble, turning a physical contest into an impossible succession of tricks.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
2:03
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Historical context

Wrestling was a familiar fairground attraction for Méliès's exhibitors. The film exaggerates that entertainment through the bodily transformations available to a trick-film camera.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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