Jan 02, 2021
60 min
Full-HD

The Méliès Mystery (2021)

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.

Category

Documentary History

Country

France

Companies

Lobster Films Steamboat Films

Leonard Maltin

Narrator

Serge Bromberg

(voice)

Costa-Gavras

Self

Michel Gondry

Self

Randy Haberkamp

Self

Heather Linville

Self

Laurent Mannoni

Self

Georges Méliès

Self (archive footage)

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