Purportedly Lost Silent French film found in Chile
Posted: June 28th, 2009, 10:04 am
I haven't found a link to these news in English, which were published yesterday on El Mercurio, the oldest Chilean newspaper.
Around 800 titles -some Silents among them- have been recovered by the Cineteca of the Universidad de Chile, including the first nitrate copy of one the best known of Chilean Silents "El Húsar de la Muerte" (The Hussar of Death) (1925). Many other rare films have been found including the only extant copy of Jean Epstein's "The Mongol Lion" (Le Lion des Mogols) (1924) which stars Ivan Mosjoukine.
I am not really sure about this film being really lost until now, since there's a review of it at us.imdb.com written in 2007, which I know isn't anything to trust.
Here's the link to the story in case anyone interested can read in Spanish:
http://tinyurl.com/m8fp2e
Around 800 titles -some Silents among them- have been recovered by the Cineteca of the Universidad de Chile, including the first nitrate copy of one the best known of Chilean Silents "El Húsar de la Muerte" (The Hussar of Death) (1925). Many other rare films have been found including the only extant copy of Jean Epstein's "The Mongol Lion" (Le Lion des Mogols) (1924) which stars Ivan Mosjoukine.
I am not really sure about this film being really lost until now, since there's a review of it at us.imdb.com written in 2007, which I know isn't anything to trust.
Here's the link to the story in case anyone interested can read in Spanish:
http://tinyurl.com/m8fp2e