Barbe-bleue (1901)

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Genre

fantasy film, silent film, horror film

Country

France

Runtime

9 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 70 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy man with a blue beard marries a young woman and forbids her to enter one room in his castle. She disobeys and discovers the bodies of his previous wives.

whimsicaltheatricalfairy-taleplayfulspookyvisual-trickerylight-darkdreamlike

What happens

Blue Beard (French: Barbe-Bleue) is a 1901 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès, based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Bluebeard". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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