L'Atlantide (1921 film)

L'Atlantide
Poster by Manuel Orazi
Directed byJacques Feyder
Screenplay byJacques Feyder
Based onL'Atlantide
by Pierre Benoit
StarringJean Angelo
Georges Melchior
Stacia Napierkowska
CinematographyGeorges Specht
Victor Morin
Amédée Morrin
Music byM. Jemain (original score)
Production
company
Thalman & Cie
Distributed byLouis Aubert[1]
Release date
  • 4 June 1921 (1921-06-04)
[2]
Running time
original length reported as 4000 metres[1] (212 minutes[3]); DVD of restored copy from Nederlands Filmmuseum 163 minutes (3708 metres)
CountriesFrance
Belgium
LanguagesSilent film
French intertitles

L'Atlantide is a 1921 French-Belgian silent film directed by Jacques Feyder, and the first of several adaptations of the best-selling novel L'Atlantide by Pierre Benoit. It was also released under various English titles at different times.

L'Atlantide (1921)
  1. ^ a b Jean A Gili & Michel Marie [eds]. Jacques Feyder. Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 1998. (1895: numéro hors série). p. 205.
  2. ^ Jean A Gili & Michel Marie [eds]. Jacques Feyder. Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 1998. (1895: numéro hors série). p. 206. (Other sources cite 28 May 1921 for the premiere.)
  3. ^ Christopher Workman and Troy Howarth. Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Baltimore, MD: Midnight Marquee Press, 2016. p. 241. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.