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The Lion of the Moguls

1924102 minFrance
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A prince fleeing an imagined Asian kingdom reaches France and meets a film star who brings him into the studio world. Playing a story resembling his own makes performance difficult to separate from experience. Romance with his screen partner provokes a jealous financier, whose schemes turn the refugee's unfamiliarity with Parisian life into a practical danger.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French.
This copy runs
104:32
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Jean Epstein · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsJean Epstein

Behind the scenes

Epstein's first film for Albatros developed an idea associated with its star Ivan Mosjoukine. The movement from an exotic adventure to a Paris film studio allows the production to place spectacular fiction beside the machinery that creates it.

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