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The Monster

19032 minFrance
FantasyHorror

Synopsis

An Egyptian prince asks a priest to bring his dead wife back to life. The ritual animates a skeleton, which acquires a shroud and begins an increasingly unsettling dance. The prince's hope of a reunion becomes a spectacle in which the body changes shape and the promised restoration remains uncertain.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
2:30
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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

Georges Méliès plays the priest and combines puppetry with theatrical machinery and camera effects. A wire-operated skeleton, trapdoors, substitutions and superimposition turn the resurrection into a sequence of visual surprises.

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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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