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The Diabolic Tenant

19097 minFrance
ComedyFantasy

Synopsis

A new tenant enters an empty room with a small bag and produces furniture, decorations and an entire household from it. When the bill arrives, the miraculous domestic arrangement becomes a means of escape. The caretaker and a policeman discover that ordinary rules cannot contain either the guest or his luggage.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
7:18
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Behind the scenes

Méliès combines theatrical machinery, pyrotechnics and concealed performers with substitution effects. The everyday business of renting a room supplies a framework for objects that grow, disappear and seem to acquire lives of their own.

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  • Georges Méliès — Georges Méliès; Publicity materials for an exhibition at La Caixa Foundation: http://press.lacaixa.es/socialprojects/exhibiton-georges-melies-magic-of-cinema-caixaforum-barcelona-eng__816-c-17952__.html · Public domain

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