Tih Minh

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Movie
Original title Tih Minh
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1919
length 340 minutes
Rod
Director Louis Feuillade
script Louis Feuillade, Georges Le Faure
production Gaumont
camera Léon Klausse
cut Léon Klausse
occupation

Tih Minh is a twelve-part French silent movie - Serial of Louis Feuillade from 1919, published in the US under the title In the Clutches of the Hindoo.

action

When the explorer Jacques d'Athys from French Indochina returns to his mother's house on the Côte d'Azur , he is not only accompanied by his loyal servant Placide, but also by a young Annamite woman named Tih-Minh, who gives him his life there has saved (the circumstances are not illuminated). His sister has the task of imparting French culture and education to Tih Minh, and it turns out that Jacques feels more than grateful for her. But he does not have much time at home. The government orders him to travel back again and, together with Placide, stays in Indochina for another two years. The nature of the mission remains uncertain, but it is clear that a book that d'Athys brings back with him after his second visit attracts the attention of dubious figures who later turn out to be German spies. As it turns out, the book contains a coded message that is supposed to provide information about a treasure trove and which is also meaningful to the members of an international conspiracy to destroy England.

The Tih Minh series takes up elements of the Mata Hari affair, the protagonist of which was executed as a double agent in Vincennes near Paris in October 1917, but also reacts to developments in the French colonies in Southeast Asia, where new ones emerged under the impact of the Russian October Revolution of 1917 revolutionary and communist resistance movements founded.

Episodes

No. title date length
1 Le Philtre d'oubli Feb. 7, 1919 1125 m
2 Drames dans la nuit Feb. 14, 1919 725 m
3 Les Mystères de la Villa Circé Feb 21, 1919 880 m
4th L'Homme dans la malle Feb. 28, 1919 725 m
5 Chez les fous March 7, 1919 645 m
6th Oiseaux de nuit March 14, 1919 760 m
7th L'Évocation March 21, 1919 650 m
8th Sous le voile March 28, 1919 715 m
9 La Branche du salut Apr 4, 1919 720 m
10 Mercredi Apr 11, 1919 870 m
11 Le Document 29 Apr 18, 1919 ? m
12 Justice Apr 25, 1919 780 m

publication

The Cinémathèque française and Anthology Film Archives hold copies of Tinh Minh . Apparently there is a 35 mm version restored by Gaumont, which was shown a few times in the USA and Europe around 2005/06, and again on December 3, 2009 at Yale University . There is no publication on DVD / Blu-ray, but video files of poor quality are circulating on the Internet. Due to the traditional situation, the series remained largely unreceived.

Parallel to the theatrical showing of the series in 1919, a twenty-four-page novel cinéma by Georges Le Faure and Louis Feuillade was published every Thursday , which was illustrated with stills from the series. Individual issues are available as antiquarian or downloadable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of publication according to the filmography in: Francis Lacassin: Louis Feuillade. Maître des lions et des vampires. Bordas, Paris 1995
  2. ↑ Length of the film in meters. An exact duration cannot be derived from this, since the playback speed in the early silent films was mostly between 14 and 18 frames / second, increased to around 20-25 in the course of the 1920s. A fixed playback speed was only established in connection with the sound film. See cinema or the history of cinema
  3. ^ After the Great War: European Film in 1919. A conference at Yale University . ( Memento of August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 151 kB) yale.edu