The Méliès Mystery (2021)

6.9/10 60 min Documentary History

Overview

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center, and the Library of Congress.

Cast

Leonard Maltin

Narrator

Serge Bromberg

(voice)

Costa-Gavras

Self

Michel Gondry

Self

Georges Méliès

Self (archive footage)

Billy Bitzer

Self (archive footage)

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