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Moonfleet (English with French subtitles)
Sunday, November 1st, 2026
at 15:00
Date
Sunday, November 1st, 2026
at 15:00
Location
Main screening room
Date
November 1st, 2026
Duration
87 min
Cycle
History of Cinema

This recurring cycle is an opportunity to watch or re-watch classics from cinema history, or films representative of certain national cinematographies, trends or eras, on the big screen.

Moonfleet
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Language
English with French subtitles
Actors
Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Origins
USA
Year
1955
Duration
87 min
Genre
Adventure, drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

In 1757, in a small English port, a young boy befriends a smuggler and follows him on his adventures.

Moonfleet
L'un des meilleurs films de la période américaine de Lang et sans doute l’un des plus beaux films d'aventures jamais tournés
Serge Daney
1990

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang was an Austro-Hungarian director who became a German national through marriage in 1919 and was naturalized as an American citizen in 1935. As the inventor of many innovative techniques that became industry standards and earned him the title of "Master of Darkness," he introduced an expressionist aesthetic to cinema as early as 1919, which set a trend and particularly inspired film noir. His work is characterized by recurring themes: revenge, the death drive that undermines both the individual and society, the manipulation of crowds by a superhuman figure, the struggle for power, man's violence against man, and freedom for evil. The theme of the double, an image of uncanny strangeness, is present in almost all of his films. Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor. His 1929 film Woman in the Moon showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocket launch pad and the rocket-launch countdown clock. The restored and reconstructed version of Metropolis has been classified in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 2001.

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