Les Vampires (1915)

Note: this print runs 34 minutes against a recorded 420 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Ayme, Louis Leubas, René Poyen, Stacia Napierkowska, Renée Carl

Directed by Louis Feuillade

Les Vampires (French pronunciation: [le vɑ̃piʁ]) is a 1915–1916 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. Set in Paris, it stars Édouard Mathé, Musidora and Marcel Lévesque. The main characters are a journalist and his friend who become involved in trying to uncover and stop a bizarre underground Apaches criminal gang, known as the Vampires, who are not the mythical beings their name might suggest. The serial consists of ten episodes, which vary greatly in length. It was produced and distributed by Feuillade's company Gaumont. Due to its stylistic similarities with Feuillade's other crime serials Fantômas and Judex, the three are often considered a trilogy.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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