LES VAMPIRES - BLU-KINO CLASSICS

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• Release Year: 1915
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: A lgendary seven-hour silent crime serial in ten episodes, Les Vampires follows the exploits of a brazen and resourceful band of arch-criminals who rob the rich, transfix the elite of France, and almost elude the obssessive pursuit of crusading journalist Phillipe Guerande and his sidekick Mazaunette. A series of Grand Vampires with names such as Satanas and Venomoan share the irresistible Irman Vep (An anagram of Vampire) as strategist and mistress. Sometmes seductively garbed in a black body stocking and a black bond, sometimes disguised as a boy or hidden in plain view as a maid, stenographer or bourgeois spinster, feared and desired by both her cohorts and her stalkers, Irma Vep (Musidora, who achieved cinema immortality in this part) is perhaps the first liberated screen woman. ; ; Shot off-the-cuff by writer-director Louis Feulldade in the streets and interiors of 1915 Paris, Les Vampires is 'full of disappearances and disguises, sudden deaths and uncanny resurrections, hidden trapdoors and secret tunnels, car chases and rooftop escapes' Banned by the Paris police for gloifying crime, a smash hit when finally released, and for fifty years celebrated as a masterpiece of French cinema, Les Vampires is available for the first time in the United States, complete and restored, with the English titles and inserts, tints, and an evocative orchestral score.
• Cast: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé, Fernand Herrmann, Stacia Napierkowska, Renée Carl, Suzanne Delvé, Georgette Faraboni, Jacques Feyder, Rita Herlor, Émile Keppens, Louise Lagrange, Suzanne Le Bret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Luguet, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Mademoiselle Maxa, Gaston Michel, Frederik Moriss, Laurent Morléas, René Poyen, Delphine Renot, Françoise Rosay, Germaine Rouer, Thelès, Miss Édith, Louis Feuillade, Robert Israel
• Director: Louis Feuillade
• Runtime: 6:39
• Company: Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont, Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie