The Cabinet of Mephistopheles (1897)
- Original title
- Le cabinet de Méphistophélès
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- fantasy film, horror film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Rating
- 3.9 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A magician conjures spirits and devils in his laboratory, creating strange apparitions and vanishing people. The film is a silent trick movie that adapts the Faust story into a series of visual illusions.
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What happens
The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (French: Le Cabinet de Méphistophélès), initially released in Britain and America as Laboratory of Mephistopheles and also known as The Cabinet of Mephistopheles, The Devil's Laboratory, Faust's Laboratory, and The Laboratory of Faust, is an 1897 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, loosely inspired by the Faust legend. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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