Cléopâtre (1899)

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Movie
German title Cléopâtre
Original title Cléopâtre
Country of production France
Publishing year 1899
length 2 minutes
Rod
Director Georges Méliès
production Georges Méliès
occupation

Cléopâtre is a lost silent short film by French film pioneer Georges Méliès about a resuscitation of the mummy of Cleopatra . The film, premiered in 1899, is one of the earliest horror films . The AFP news agency described the two-minute film as a “groundbreaking classic in early cinema history.” Cleopatra is portrayed by the actress Jeanne d'Alcy . In 2005 a copy was believed to have been found in France; However, it was confused with Méliès' film L'oracle de Delphes .

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The plot of the lost film is presented slightly differently in the available sources. According to a scenario by Méliès, the plot consists in the fact that after a dance by priestesses around Cleopatra's grave, two men appear who desecrate the grave and set the mummy of Cleopatra on fire, from which Cleopatra emerges alive and angry. According to other sources, a man of diabolical appearance cuts Cleopatra's mummy into pieces and then uses magic to restore it and bring it to life.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lost 106-Year-Old Movie Discovered ( English ) In: Internet Movie Database . September 22, 2005. Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b DVDToile.com: Cléopâtre , accessed August 27, 2008
  3. ↑ Cléopâtre (1899): Trivia ( English ) In: IMDb . Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ News from 2005 ( English ) In: Who's Who of Victorian Cinema . Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved August 27, 2008.
  5. ↑ Summary in the Internet Movie Database.

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