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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 749

La hantise

191224 minFrance

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French.
This copy runs: 23:30
Subtitles: English

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Wikimedia Commons · Louis Feuillade · Public domain

Subtitles: Wikimedia Commons · Open Classic Cinema

Synopsis

A fortune teller predicts that a woman will lose someone she loves. The warning becomes an obsession when her husband prepares to sail on the Titanic, and she begs him to abandon the journey. His departure leaves her waiting for news while the film follows the damage caused by treating a prediction as an unavoidable certainty.

Cast

Renée Carl

René Navarre

DirectorsLouis Feuillade

Historical context

Released in the year of the Titanic disaster, the short is among the earliest surviving films to incorporate the sinking. Feuillade uses the topical event in a story critical of fortune telling and the fear it can create.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Renée Carl — unknown (Gaumont); http://fantomas.arte.tv/fr/ · Public domain
René Navarre — Studio Sartony; https://auctionart.auction.fr/_fr/lot/acteurs-divers-trente-deux-photographies-originales-dimensions-diverses-en-partie-15877450#.X9h6K-dCe71 · Public domain

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