Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

Jan 21, 2022

0h 53m

★ 7.1

Overview

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

Temps noir

TV5 Monde

ARTE

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Féodor Atkine

Self - Narrator (voice)

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Self

Matthieu Letourneux

Self

Mylène Demongeot

Self

Jean-Marc Lalanne

Self

Loïc Artiaga

Self

Andrey Shary

Self

Jan Kounen

Self (archive footage)

André Hunebelle

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Allain

Self (archive footage)

René Magritte

Self (archive footage)

Jean Marais

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