Film

Continent perdu (1955)

• 10 mai 1955
• 2h 0m

• Documentaire

Synopsis

Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Réalisateurs

Giorgio Moser, Leonardo Bonzi, Enrico Gras

Scénaristes

Ennio Flaiano, John Gunther, Giorgio Moser, Mario Craveri

Avec

Orio Vergani, George Bryan