Deux Cents Mille Lieues sous les mers ou le Cauchemar du pêcheur | |
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
Based on | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne |
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Running time | 286 meters/930 feet[1] 14 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | Silent |
Under the Seas (French: Deux Cents Mille Lieues sous les mers ou le Cauchemar du pêcheur)[2][a] is a silent film made in 1907 by the French director Georges Méliès. The film, a parody of the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne,[4] follows a fisherman who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures, including a chorus of naiads.[4]
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