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Les Vampires (1915)
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| Starring: | Musidora, Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé, Jean Ayme, Marcel Levesque, Stacia Napierkowska |
| Director: | Louis Feuillade |
| Genre: | Silent, Crime, Mystery/Thiller |
| Year: | 1915 |
| Studio: | Image Entertainment |
| Length: | 399 minutes |
| Released: | April 5, 2005 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:A legendary 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 obsessive pursuit of crusading journalist Phillipe Guerande and his sidekick Mazamette. A series of Grand Vampires with names such as Satanas and Venomous share the irresistible Irma Vep (an anagram of Vampire) as strategist and mistress. Sometimes seductively garbed in a black body stocking and a black hood, sometimes disguised as a boy or hidden in plain view as a maid, stenographer or bourgeois spinster, feared and desired by bother 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-directed Louis Feuillade 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 for glorifying 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 English titles and inserts, tints and an evocative orchestral score.
- Digital Stereo Orchestral Score
- Originally Mastered to the Correct Running Speed
BONUS FEATURES:
- Insert essay, "The Public Is My Master: Louis Feuillade and Les Vampires" by Fabrice Zagury
- For the Children (1916) - 3 minute comedy sketch by the cast and crew of LES VAMPIRES to raise funds for the French war orphans. Directed by Louis Feuillade.
- Bout-de-Zan and the Shirker (1916) - 8 minute comedy that features the child actor, Bout-De-Zan, from episode 8 of LES VAMPIRES and is directed by Louis Feuillade.
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